'We're not Christians, Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli.' Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition to Mussolini, Carlo Levi 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.
ISBN: | 9780141183213 |
Publication date: | 25th May 2000 |
Author: | Carlo Levi |
Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 256 pages |
Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
Genres: |
Memoirs European history Rural communities Social and cultural history |