im currently listening to all the most recent John Foxx albums and unfortunately i have the suspect he could unzip his cock & piss in my mouth and i would still say "this is a banger! slurp!"
Ragazzi di vita is about poverty, they say... Ragazzi di vita is about injustice, they say... no. Ragazzi di vita is about Begalone's big feet and, I quote, "long ape toes"
I was mugged by snow white and the seven dwarves the other day. six dwarves now, I suppose. kneed dipshit or dopey or whatever he was called in the eye socket so hard he died before his limp body hit the ground. they all scattered after that. I'll never forget how they wailed his name
RDV anon - aww man, seems like an English translation of the uncut version won't be happening for a good few years :/ oh well, thank you for the information regardless ☺️ perhaps when I'm finished reading the commercially available version, mind if I hit you up for the bonus material? 😉 (also, what English translation do you recommend? I want to get as close as I can to the original material as possible)
Heehee hii Anon, yesterday I was studying some references for my next RdV AU fic (it's a long story) (or, should I say, a long PREHIstory? Lol) but today I'll start to work on the more-or-less translations of the missing scenes... 🫡
And about the translations: the two best ones are The Street Kids by Ann Goldstein & Boys Alive by Tim Parks; ditch completely the oldest translation, The Ragazzi by Emile Capouya, because it doesn't really reflect the very crude and raw way the characters talk. I think the best translation could be the most recent one by Tim Parks, but unfortunately I've not fully read either of them...
All of the translations have issues and don't really translate well how badly the characters talk (they didn't go to school and you can definitely hear it in all the verbs they get so painfully wrong lol. they're so cute. I love them 💗), but I've heard Tim Parks' one is not as bad...
Unfortunately, I think none of them translated ALL the nicknames in the book. Most of the characters have nicknames instead of real names, and they've not been translated but kept the original, and it's a bit of a shame... Understandable, tho, since some nicknames are very tricky... (like one of the protagonists late in the book, the Begalone/Bégalo, WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Don't ask me! And I guess the translators don't know either! So they didn't translate it. And I get them)
I hope you'll enjoy this book. I'll wait for your thoughts about it 😁 <- guy who's unwell about this book and can't wait for others to tell them if they liked the book and what's their favourite characters and ship in it
Oh also damn, I almost forgot; some scenes are kinda hard to understand, because of the writing itself (the places are a lot and vaguely described, the characters are many, the scenes are very fast-paced etc), for any doubt, 📨 me 👍 I'll answer hastily. Because I'm unwell about this book
psssst hey— know where a fella can get their hands on the uncut/uncensored version of RDV? I've tried looking but all I seem to find are the standard versions? Saying this as someone who wants to get into the novel btw, I may or may not have been intrigued by your fanarts 👀
Oh wow hiii handsome grey anonymous face *giggles and twirls my hair around a finger* hiii welcomee 😘 I'm glad my RdVpropaganda worked 😝 time for me to yap (under the cut)
The uncut version came out in Italy in the November of 2025 (I got it in October but just because I'm unwell about this book) and unfortunately, as far as I know, no translation has been planned for this version. Which honestly has been so badly published NO ONE knew it existed. I advertised this version more than the publisher itself, where's my money Garzanti, smh!!! 😤
The uncut version contains many small scenes changed (the Lenzettacest scene, the biggest example) and a few, very long (an entire cut chapter, in a case) extra scenes that have been cut from the original 1955 publication because of the morality of the time. The extra chapter is just Begalone & Alduccio (the blond and the brunette guys with long hair... The fagottini I can't stop drawing...) being very very very homosexual to each other. That's it. That's the cut chapter. Homosexuality
Since I don't think it will be officially translated any time soon, I can try to crudely translate the scenes to English in the future. (I don't use AI and it will take time and my English, as you can see, is a bit poopy, but for my non-italian friend it worked, so...)
The original 1955 publication is available in every public library of most countries, and translated in most languages, so I don't think it will be a problem to find it 👍 I could probably write a Content Warning page for the book (being published in the 50s it obviously doesn't have one, lol), but it's not that heavy even if the themes can be. Some scenes are so subtle that are understandable only after a few reads (or by reading my rants in the tag #RdVmaxxing since I've reread the damn book over 10 times at this point LOL!)
So yeah, after this wall of text of me neurodivergently talk about my special interest, my advice is, if you don't speak Italian, to read the official translation of the 1955 publishing (in any language you prefer) and then "upgrade" the cut scenes later. And witness TWO gay ships return canon after the 50s censorship 😝
And if I was convincing enough and you read it, I'd be thrilled to have updates on your reading journey 😁 because I'm so absolutely neuro detergent about this book 😁 my besty Frosty can confirm (he has to listen to me yap about this book all day every day, he's a saint)
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