Christ Stopped at Eboli

Penguin Modern Classics

By: Carlo Levi

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Paperback | 2 October 2000 | Edition Number 1

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"No message, human or divine, has reached this stubborn poverty... to this shadowy land... Christ did not come. Christ stopped at Eboli"

Carlo Levi, one of the 20th century's most incisive commentators, was exiled to a remote and barren corner of southern Italy for his opposition to Mussolini. He entered a world cut off from history and the state, hedged in by custom and sorrow, without comfort or solace, where, eternally patient, the peasants lived in an age-old stillness and in the presence of death - for Christ did stop at Eboli.

"One of the most poetic and penetrating first-hand accounts of the confrontation between two cultures"
The Times Literary Supplement

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Winner of the Via Reggio and Mondadori prizes in Italy, this is an artistic achievement, exceptional in the evocative quality of its prose. This is a picture of the desolate reaches of Lucania, to which the author, painter and political prisoner, was sent for three years. As a former doctor, Don Carlo earned the affection of the sick peasants whom he cared for. This is a picture of a lost land, victim of feudal carryovers. Here was the sameness of the days, the futile endurance, and at the close, the ban against Don Carlo's practising, which led the author to secret measures in order to help the people... One may question an American audience for this, but there is charm and compassion here- for the perceptive reader. (Kirkus Reviews)

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