FSG Classics: Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year (Paperback)

from DarthDeverell

Carlo Levi's Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year documents Levi's exile to the Calabria region of Southern Italy during Mussolini's Fascist rule. The title references a saying among the peasant people that Christ, and most of history, has visited other towns while passing them by, leavin...

from tabascofromgudreads

Carlo Levi was sent in exile to a Southern Italian village (current name Aliano) in the mid 1930's as a political prisoner because of his anti-fascism. This book is his recollection of one of the three years he spent there. The village is very small, isolated, and ridden with misery and illness. ...

from starbox

While on a recent trip to Matera, in the 'heel' of Italy, this book was mentioned, so got it on my return. This is the memoir of artist, writer and doctor Carlo Levi: an opponent of Facism, he was sent in 1935 from Turin to the impoverished south as a political prisoner. Beautiful and evocative w...

from tabascofromgudreads

Carlo Levi was sent in exile to a Southern Italian village (current name Aliano) in the mid 1930's as a political prisoner because of his anti-fascism. This book is his recollection of one of the three years he spent there. The village is very small, isolated, and ridden with misery and illness...

from ben_a

I still have 100 pages to go, but it's hard to believe anything beyond a 30 page battle between a sloth and a penguin will change my assessment of this book. In the early 40s, Levi, an anti-fascist, is sent in internal exile to two small villages in the South of Italy. His record of this time chr...