Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year - Softcover

Levi, Carlo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374530092 ISBN 13: 9780374530099

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2006

Synopsis

It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi--a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters--was confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to Italy's Fascist government at the start of the Ethiopian war in 1935. While there, Levi reflected on the harsh landscape and its inhabitants, peasants who lived the same lives their ancestors had, constantly fearing black magic and the near presence of death. In so doing, Levi offered a starkly beautiful and moving account of a place and a people living outside the boundaries of progress and time.

About this title

Review:

"[Levi is] a sensitive and gifted writer with a great sense of style." --Alfred Kazin

About the Author:

Carlo Levi (1902-1975) was born in Turin, Italy. He was a writer, journalist, artist, and doctor, whose first documentary novel, Christ Stopped at Eboli (1945), became an international sensation and introduced the trend toward social realism in post-war Italian literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0374530092
• ISBN 13: 9780374530099
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268