Les terrains. Ecrits sur le sport

by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Flaviano Pisanelli (Traduction)

A travers ses diffrentes passions humaines et intellectuelles, Pasolini essaie de comprendre, de pntrer et de rvler les raisons et les causes des transformations sociales et culturelles dans l'Italie des annes soixante. Ces articles journalistiques nous donnent l'occasion de voir un " autre " Pasolini, l'homme plus que l'artiste, ses parcours de rflexion plus que son ct crateur, qui reste nanmoins manifeste dans son acte d'criture.

160 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2012

About the author

Italian poet, novelist, critic, essayst, journalist, translator, dramatist, film director, screenwriter and philosopher, often regarded as one of the greatest minds of XX century, was murdered violently in Rome in 1975 in circumstances not yet been clarified. Pasolini is best known outside Italy for his films, many of which were based on literary sources - The Gospel According to Saint Matthew, The Decameron, The Canterbury Tales...

Pasolini referred himself as a 'Catholic Marxist' and often used shocking juxtapositions of imagery to expose the vapidity of values in modern society.
His essays and newspaper articles often critized the capitalistic omologation and also often contributed to public controversies which had made him many enemies. In the weeks leading up to his murder he had condemned Italy's political class for its corruption, for neo-fascist terrorist conspiracy and for collusion with the Mafia and the infamous "Propaganda 2" masonic lodge of Licio Gelli and Eugenio Cefis.

His friend, the writer Alberto Moravia, considered him "the major Italian poet" of the second half of the 20th century.