
Summer 1959 Pier Paolo Pasolini driving a Fiat Millecento travelled along the Italian coastline to carry out La lunga strada di sab
- bia The Long Sandy Road a wide report commissioned by the magazine Successo on Italy between tradition & transformation middle-class holidays & remains of a difficult post-war period An intense text that continues to strike for its depth & poetic sensitivity After forty years the photographer Philippe Seclier has travelled again along the same route finding traces images & memories of the great writer & of his unforgettable portrait of Italy Now Contrasto publishes for the first time the complete text of The long sandy road together with the original manuscript by Pier Paolo Pasolini & the photographs by Philippe Seclier This is a unique document to get to know again forty years after his death the skill of a great writer & intellectual & rediscover his strong bond with our country