Una vita violenta

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Una vita violenta is a 1959 Italian novel by Pier Paolo Pasolini that portrays the harsh lives and moral struggles of Roman slum youth in the postwar period.

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instanceOf Italian novel
novel
adaptedTo film
author Pier Paolo Pasolini NERFINISHED
authorNationality Italian
authorOccupation film director
poet
writer
countryOfOrigin Italy
criticalReception considered an important work of Italian postwar literature
depicts class inequality
juvenile delinquency
life in Roman shantytowns
postwar Italian society
filmAdaptationDirector Brunello Rondi NERFINISHED
Paolo Heusch NERFINISHED
followsInAuthorCareer Ragazzi di vita NERFINISHED
genre realist novel
social novel
hasAdaptation Una vita violenta (1962 film) NERFINISHED
hasLiteraryStyle Roman dialect elements
colloquial language
literaryMovement Neorealism NERFINISHED
mainCharacter Tommaso Puzzilli NERFINISHED
mainTheme coming of age
moral struggle
poverty
social marginalization
narrativePerspective third-person narrative
originalLanguage Italian
placeOfPublication Milan NERFINISHED
protagonistType Roman slum youth
publicationYear 1959
publisher Garzanti NERFINISHED
relatedWorkByAuthor Ragazzi di vita NERFINISHED
settingLocation Roman suburbs
Rome NERFINISHED
settingPeriod post-World War II
subjectMatter conflict between instinct and morality
struggle for dignity
working-class life in Rome

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Pier Paolo Pasolini notableWork Una vita violenta