{"title":"Pier Paolo Pasolini","description":"\u003cp\u003ePier Paolo Pasolini's works offer a profound exploration of \u003cstrong\u003earts and culture\u003c\/strong\u003e through a unique blend of poetic language and narrative innovation. Readers can expect a rich tapestry of stories and poems that challenge conventional perspectives, weaving together myth, history, and contemporary themes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom evocative \u003cem\u003eRoman Poems\u003c\/em\u003e to the intricate reflections in \u003cem\u003eThe Divine Mimesis\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSt. Paul\u003c\/em\u003e, Pasolini's writing invites contemplation on identity, spirituality, and society. His fiction and poetry resonate with emotional depth and intellectual rigor, making each book a compelling journey.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-divine-mimesis-by-pier-paolo-pasolini-9781967751235","title":"The Divine Mimesis","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Divine Mimesis\u003c\/em\u003e, Pasolini reimagines Dante's descent into Hell not as allegory but as lived, historical reality—urban, political, and deeply personal. Written in the final years of his life, this unfinished and fiercely experimental work leads us through the wreckage of modern Italy: housing projects, consumer culture, political betrayal, the spiritual void left in the wake of fascism and capitalism alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe poet is no longer a pilgrim, but a witness—disillusioned, irreverent, obsessed with truth. And truth, here, is brutal. Pasolini tears into language, myth, and self with equal violence, creating a text that is part confession, part vision, part cultural autopsy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat begins as a mimicry of Dante becomes something darker and stranger—a descent not into a metaphysical Hell, but the concrete one of the present. \u003cem\u003eThe Divine Mimesis\u003c\/em\u003e is not just a reckoning with a broken world, but with the broken idea of progress itself. Fragmented, volatile, and saturated with grief, this is Pasolini at his most unguarded and incendiary. 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The controversial and openly gay Pasolini was murdered at the age of fifty-three; \u003cem\u003eIn Danger\u003c\/em\u003e includes his final interview, conducted hours before his death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463248199916,"sku":"9780872865075","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780872865075-in-danger.jpg?v=1775030404"},{"product_id":"paola-de-pietri-istanbul-new-stories-by-pier-paolo-pasolini-9783958291102","title":"Paola De Pietri: Istanbul New Stories","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver the last fifteen years, Istanbul has emerged as one of the principal megacities at the outset of the twenty-first century. 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The postures and body language reflect the precarious, unstable state of mind of a new and very mixed social stratum of domestic migrants coming to terms with unfamiliar models of life and environments, in which stray dogs linger like ghosts from the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaola De Pietri: Istanbul New Stories\u003c\/em\u003e explores these themes through a compelling visual narrative, capturing the essence of a city in the throes of transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471330394348,"sku":"9783958291102","price":170.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783958291102-paola-de-pietri-istanbul-new-stories.jpg?v=1775239722"},{"product_id":"roman-poems-by-pier-paolo-pasolini-9780872861879","title":"Roman Poems","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was first and always a poet—the most important civil poet, according to Alberto Moravia, in Italy in the second half of this century. His poems were at once deeply personal and passionately engaged in the political turmoil of his country. In 1949, after his homosexuality led the Italian Communist Party to expel him on charges of \"moral and political unworthiness,\" Pasolini fled to Rome. This selection of poems from his early impoverished days on the outskirts of Rome to his last (with a backward longing glance at his native Friuli) is at the centre of his poetic and filmic vision of modern Italian life as an Inferno.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"From all these refusals, we know what Pasolini stood against—political ideologies of all kinds, the complacency inherent in the established social order, the corruption of the institutions of church and state. If Pasolini could be said to have stood for anything it was for the struggles of Italy's working class—both the rural peasants and those barracked in the urban slums at the edges of Italian cities—whose humanity he evoked with great eloquence and nuance. But it is his refusals that animate his legacy with an incandescent rage, a passionate and profound fury that did not, as Zigaina suggests, cry out for death—but for just the opposite.\" -Nathaniel Rich, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePier Paolo Pasolini was born in 1922 in Bologna. In addition to the films for which he is world famous, he wrote novels, poetry, and social and cultural criticism, and was an accomplished painter. 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Written between the appearance of his renowned film \u003cem\u003eTeorema\u003c\/em\u003e and the shocking, controversial \u003cem\u003eSalò, or the 120 Days of Sodom\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSt Paul\u003c\/em\u003e was deemed too risky for investors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt once a political intervention and cinematic breakthrough, the script forces a revolutionary transformation on the contemporary legacy of Paul. In Pasolini's kaleidoscope, we encounter fascistic movements, resistance fighters, and faltering revolutions, each of which reflects on aspects of the Pauline teachings. 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