Marginal lives among the rubble of post-war Rome

“In Pietralata, due to education, there was no one who felt pity for the living, imagine what the hell they felt for the dead.” This phrase by Pasolini defines the moral sentiment of the anonymous voices of marginal young men, half criminals, half trench soldiers, future prison meat, who star in the novel Xavals de carrer, published by l’Agulla Daurada, translated by Joan Casas. A luminous, vital, stark and realistic chronicle of marginal life i…