Essays on India (Modern Voices) - Softcover

Carlo Levi; Anita Desai (foreword); Antony Shugaar (translator)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843914409 ISBN 13: 9781843914402

Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

With his typically perceptive insights, Levi writes evocatively on his experiences in India: his interview with Pandit Nehru; his tour of a tent city at a political convention; his meeting with a Hindu nationalist party. This is a new addition to the tradition of Western writing on India, made all the more fascinating by the influence that Levi's famous "Christ Stopped at Eboli" has had on many Indian intellectuals.

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Review:

'Levi had an unusual depth of vision in a spectrum not accessed by most writers, and if his reports of what he sees in it are sometimes, even frequently pseudish, gnomic or simply unmoving, when he hits his mark, he does so cleanly and gives the sense of an essential truth being revealed.' --Laurahird.com

About the Author:

Italian writer and painter Carlo Levi (1902-75) is best known for the remarkable 'Christ Stopped at Eboli'.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1843914409
• ISBN 13: 9781843914402
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 124