"To consider what Pasolini, who died at 53, was able to produce in a mere 30 years, we can only wonder how he found the time and energy. All the more so because he never stopped travelling, never stopped playing his beloved soccer, never stopped making lasting friends and certainly never stopped his nocturnal prowling, like a "tom-cat in search of love". Playing an active part in Italian public life, he cast himself in the self-styled role of the last great Italian intellectual : becoming, by his "publication of the private", a sort of paradoxical political conscience, forever vigilant, a visionary "didactically" exposing himself to the persecution of the media, the authorities and the stupidity of all kinds of conformism." (Alain Bergala)