Fictions of Youth
Bondavalli, Simona![Fictions of Youth](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/233/23373119/CHSBZCOP0323373119.jpg)
Fictions of Youth is a comprehensive examination of adolescence as an aesthetic, sociological, and ideological category in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s prose, poetry, and cinema. Simona Bondavalli’s book explores the multiple ways in which youth, real and imagined, shaped Pasolini’s poetics and critical positions and shows how Pasolini’s works became the basis for representations of contemporary young people, particularly Italians. From Pasolini’s ow...