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“... that drove vengeance and justice are appeased, and converted into the so-called Kindly Ones. Pier PaoloPasolini accepted this story as still current in Italy in the 1960s, but with an important variant. The transformation did not mean the Furies were any the less ‘irrational and archaic’, only that instead of ...”

“... Vasco Pratolini, Morante’s husband, Alberto Moravia, and her friends Natalia Ginzburg and Pier PaoloPasolini were all in different ways seeking to describe postwar desolation in spare, chastened prose. Morante was having none of it. Her own writing is more reminiscent of the fin-de-siècle grandiloquence of ...”

“... A short film directed by Pasolini in 1966, La Terra Vista dalla Luna, opens with a caption printed over a fixed image: ‘Seen from the moon, this movie . . . is nothing and has not been created by anybody . . . But since we are on planet earth, it might be better to let you know that it is a fable written by Pier PaoloPasolini ...”

“... IRA: according to Hanley and Millar, Roy Johnston urged Mac Stíofáin to investigate the work of Pier PaoloPasolini, confident it would prove that Catholicism and Marxism could be brought together. Mac Stíofáin was unmoved. As relations between the British army and the nationalist population worsened, the Officials ...”

“... the meaning of La Storia and the reasons for the exceptional stir.’ One of these critics was Pier PaoloPasolini, a close friend of Morante’s for two decades. The novel was good in parts, he judged (the best of it as good as The Brothers Karamazov), but overall it was a mess. The characters were mostly ...”

“... Nothing in Pier PaoloPasolini’s The Gospel According to Saint Matthew quite lives up to its first few minutes, but getting anywhere near them is quite an achievement. And this static, mysterious movie, now showing at the BFI as part of a Pasolini season, becomes quite hectic at the end, as if impatient to finish, to run away from a story it now finds crowded rather than interesting ...”

“... by Picador in February 1984. The ‘plus two’ were Great Expectations and My Death, My Life by Pier PaoloPasolini. (The current Penguin Classics edition drops both, and is remarkable for being one of few Acker books ever published to have a photo of a crop-headed young woman on the cover, except that it isn’t ...”