Carlo Levi
Paperback | Pages: 275 pages Rating: 4.07 | 5232 Users | 432 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Cristo si è fermato a Eboli |
| ISBN: | 0374530092 (ISBN13: 9780374530099) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Aliano(Italy) |
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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.List Of Books Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
| Title | : | Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year |
| Author | : | Carlo Levi |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 275 pages |
| Published | : | January 10th 2006 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (first published 1945) |
| Categories | : | Cultural. Italy. European Literature. Italian Literature. Nonfiction. History |
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Ratings: 4.07 From 5232 Users | 432 ReviewsRate Of Books Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
This is a really fascinating book, with a few caveats.Let's start with the bad: it's hard to read if you're not familiar with 1.) Fascist politics, 2.) Italian history or 3.) rural mythologies. It's also not the most engaging plot--it's Levi living his life 'in exile' in incredibly rural Italy, so he doesn't exactly do a lot. The writing (well, the translation) is far from the most pretty prose--if you're looking for an aesthetic masterpiece or a tour de force, look elsewhere. But, man, is thisLet me state the verdict first: A fantastic read.This book is supposed to be a memoir. But each chapter can be read as a short story. Carlo Levi was sent to a village in the southern most tip of Italy as a political prisoner in the years 1935 - 1936. His crime was being against the Fascist regime. Being a man from North Italy (Turin) the life in the south Italy was a different experience. And later he narrated his life in south Italy in writing and that has become a masterpiece. And I too agree
So deep and poignant that this novel has stayed with me for decades. Somehow it encompasses the cores of Italian culture and values in one way- in its very base dichotomy. Especially during this time when that exact specific quality becomes so often conflicted, individually and in economic group, with the oppressive politico. Characterizations are supreme in this work. Locale feel superb.
You know how once in a while you run into a book that's so good you don't want it to end, so you draw read it very slowly, drawing it out? For me, this was one of those books.Christ Stopped at Eboli is the story of Levi's year living in Basilicata, in the south of Italy, where Mussolini exiled him for anti-Fascist activities. Levi, who was a doctor by training but a painter by trade, lived among a population mostly composed of peasants, along with a few run-of-the-mill bureaucrats. The book is a
I would have liked to meet Carlo Levi.Despite being held a political prisoner in the blooming Fascism days of the mid-thirties Italy, he did not turn sour. At least not in his rendering of one year in one of the most rural areas of Italy.Not that he in any way withheld his stand against Fascism and how the new state religion left its mark on the country, but he made a point of meeting friend and foe with an open mind.Eboli, where once the train tracks parted, never to reach into the rural areas
A wonderful, evocative read. The description of the peasant society Levi, as a political prisoner, was exiled to live in. It can be read as a shocking reflection on poverty, exploitation and politics. But mostly it is a beautiful memoire of a culture and a people. What makes it so good is Levi never judges or belittles local beliefs. He just states them as the ways things were. He generally avoids judgement or solution apart from one short analysis towards the end of the book and his general
This book is mesmerizing and beautifully written. This is a memoir that recounts Levi's time as a political prisoner of the Fascist regime in Italy, in 1935. Instead of sending him to prison, the Fascist government sent him to a remote village in Apulia, Italy. (If you think of Italy as a boot, then Apulia is at the heel of the boot) Levi's account is nonfiction, but this region of Italy was so remote, so starkly beautiful at this time, that it's hard for a modern traveler of Italy to imagine
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