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Estates

Lettera al fratello

Garzanti, pp.96

Pasolini’s moving tribute to his beloved younger brother Guido, a partisan who fell during the Italian Resistance.

Through his memory, Pasolini’s family tragedy and civic conscience intertwine, shaping an intimate and haunting portrait of Italian history.

Guido Pasolini was only eighteen when, in May 1944, he joined the partisans in the mountains of Friuli. Brave and filled with patriotic fervor, he was as impetuous and outgoing as Pier Paolo was thoughtful and reserved. For months, no news reached the family. Only after the Liberation did they learn the truth: Guido had been killed in the Porzûs massacre of February 1945, executed by communist partisans – one of the most tragic and controversial episodes of the Resistance.

Pier Paolo Pasolini entrusts his grief for this inconsolable loss to a silent dialogue with Guido: in this letter family memories and bitter reflections emerge on the atrocious fate of a generous and innocent young man, who becomes an example to his older brother, and a symbol of the civil divisions of an entire nation and of an era.

Unpublished in book form and edited by Graziella Chiarcossi.

Garzanti, pp.96

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) is a key figure in the international cultural scene of the 20th century. A well-rounded intellectual, a critical and anti-conformist author, capable of expressing himself at very high levels in poetry, literature, essay writing and journalism, as well as in cinema and the theatre.

Among his most noted films are Accattone, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Teorema, Salò and the 120 days of Sodom. He was the author of several novels, short stories, essays, and poetry collections.

Garzanti handle world rights to all Pasolini’s works, novels, poems, essays, reportages and dramatic works.

 His works have been translated into 38 languages.

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