Christ Stopped at Eboli
Translator - Frances Frenaye
Penguin Classics
Paperback
: 25 May 2000
£9.99
Synopsis
'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 twentieth-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.
Reviews
Customer Review: 30 January 2005
Reviewer: Joel Wake
An excellent memoir that shows the real class of Carlo Levi. As captivating as any book I've read and a true classic of its time and genre
» Submit a reviewCritic Review:
'In turn a diary, an album of sketches, a novel, a sociological study and a political essay . . . a beautiful book' - The New York Times Book Review
'A sensitive and gifted writer . . . Perhaps the best thing in his book is the detachment by which he avoids sentimentalizing the peasants and at the same time renders their undestroyed feelings for human values' - New York Herald Book Review
