Creek Lads, written in 1955, Pasolini's first novel and is the best gateway to his work. This is an extraordinary chronicle of life in the suburbs Rome during the years following World War II, and is a masterpiece, both as respects purely ethnographic literature, which grabs your attention from the first line. Pasolini is portraying people whose lives remain peripheral logic, beyond the illusions of both the upper classes and the traditional workers. Moreover, the powerful gaze that would later become a great filmmaker runs through the houses and streets of Rome, so that the city is another character, and very importantly, the book. For all this, the stream Lads is a key work of twentieth century literature and in it are the best aspirations of the Italian neorealist movement.
"Pasolini stimulates me primarily as an intellectual and critical. [...] In his early films is very eloquently the idea that the Third World begins in the suburbs of Rome (also found in his novels). Pasolini was a great mixing of cultural traditions. "
Juan José Saer
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