Full name: Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year

Author: Carlo Levi Year: 1945 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Travel Culture: Italy Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780374530099 0374530092

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. Similar books: Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg The Road to San Giovanni by Italo Calvino The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles by Giorgio Bassani The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani Microcosmi by Claudio Magris The Moon and the Bonfire by Cesare Pavese The Time of Indifference by Alberto Moravia Conversations In Sicily by Elio Vittorini The Path to the Spiders' Nests by Italo Calvino The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati Bebo's Girl by Carlo Cassola The Harvesters by Cesare Pavese Aracoeli by Elsa Morante The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese The Heron by Giorgio Bassani The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe Four Seasons in Rome by Anthony Doerr The Reluctant Tuscan by Phil Doran The Hills of Tuscany by Ferenc Mate Keeping the Feast by Paula Butturini