Frederick Sollazzo (p.sollazzo @ inwind.it) The two novels Boys Life (1955) and Una vita violenta (1959) , along with film Accattone (1961) and Mamma Roma (1962), represent the description, analysis, and with it, that Pasolini makes the world of the Roman suburbs.
To understand these works is necessary to include within the overall Pasolini thought, otherwise you risk misunderstandings, for example, that the world of the underclass to believe something negative, the bourgeois world of something positive and the other tracks from the world as a better way of salvation, rather than understanding, with Pasolini , as the world of the underclass is a dimension, even with all its faults, in which man can still be "pure," "naive," while the bourgeois world offers an improvement in material living conditions, paid with the loss of such purity and innocence, transformed into (dis) consumerist values, respectable, utilitarians. Even the so-called "cycle of money" should be interpreted with this in mind: the characters lose their money, whose research led by bourgeois society to fit in it (and certainly not from the underclass in society that are already included) because pure and innocent and therefore free from the evil merchant middle-class that would serve to defend the money.
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