Lads Review stream by Mercedes Monmany in ABCD. Hans Magnus Enzensberger Where convened in 1990 an anthology of European post-war infrapaisajes (Europe in ruins. Eyewitnesses 1944-1948) that included Martha Gellorn texts, Edmund Wilson, Stig Dagerman, Alfred Doblin and Max Frisch, among others, did not include any Italian author curiously, not even Malaparte and his magnificent La pelle. In his attempt to remind the citizens present European only 'forty-five years, we separated the living conditions that today we are accustomed to designate as peculiar to Africa, Asia or Latin America, "Enzensberger had overlooked a major work, a harrowing and violent lyrical beauty , a classic of the last century in Italian: the novel Ragazzi di vita, Pier Paolo Pasolini (Bologna, 1922-Rome, 1975), title translated in several ways before and now recovered, in a wonderful and new edition, as kids from the creek.
Does Pasolini effective reading today? In the case of this wonderful and ferocious debut novel, I should say immediately yes. Is absolute and permanent force which continues to radiate an unparalleled genius as this voracious creator of multiple records, tragically disappeared from Ostia beach. Someone who, expelled from the Communist Party and leaving behind his early teaching years, undertake exile from his homeland to Rome in the 50's.
Small homelands. Immediately, the city of Rome became the center hub and poetic, mystical and secular. An omphalos of violent and gloomy realism of Caravaggio, the painter would have devotion, and forever dominate most of their literature, from its stark poetic prose to famous movies like Mamma Roma or Accatone. Something that, on the other hand, never left much of his dream of resurrecting "small homelands" remote and idealized disappearing. Homelands that are concerned about both his early work as a poet in Friulian dialect as the language or jargon, native, used daily in ghettos or in marginal urban slums of Rome in constant mutation and resorption Chavales perfectly described in the creek.
poet, filmmaker, thinker and debater, whipping of the political class, the author of essays and novels at the time meant scandals sound like Kids of the river (1955) or a violent life (1959, Seix Barral, 2003), which would later become modern classics of the Italian language, Pasolini always embody for many a number of qualities, such as being homosexual at a time Marxist and Christian, they became uncomfortable or directly to many unsustainable when viewed together and turns. His irrepressible vocation cause and subvert any topic ideological current volumes would be fierce as shown in Writings privateers. Among his many views of that was unsystematic, in the 68, he preferred the security forces on demonstrators since the first came from the ranks of the rabble and second only to those of the bourgeoisie.
always hungry. Novel covers a time span ranging from Rome still occupied by the Germans in 1944 to ten years later, in 1954, in what would be called "the Second World War," Lads of the stream follows the adventures and the hard struggle for survival of a group of petty criminals and young people from that which sociologists encuadrarían in the urban sub-proletariat and lumpen own near the big cities.
Pasolini saw in those young and wild asocial that purity of the human in its purest form, yet untamed, which always fascinated him and in his work represent the mythic construction, cultural, rather than purely neorealist a kind of 'saga of young people "as he called in his day the Frenchman Foucault. That is, young people uprooted, marginal, of all ages, from the Middle Ages or ancient Rome and Greece, which the company had never been integrated. Almost always hungry kids, some of them half a consumptive, who in the novel rough Pasolini, led by the protagonist, Ricetto, we see playing and bathing in dirty water of the Tiber, trafficking and prowling through the slums, with no apparent nothing just stealing scrap, picking up cigarette butts at the stations or planning smaller "shocks" and petty theft.
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