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Christ Stopped at Eboli : The Story of a Year
Christ Stopped at Eboli The Story of a Year
Author: Carlo Levi
In the south of Italy, between Apulia and Calabria, lies a land that is barren, desolate, and malarial, where the peasants live out their existence in poverty and in the presence of death. it was here in primitive Lucania, at the start of the Ethiopian war (19350, that Carlo Levi, doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters, was confined as...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780374503161
ISBN-10: 0374503168
Publication Date: 1/1/1947
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 2
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Interesting, written in the 40's, has a different written style than "we are used to" (We, being readers of quality fiction).
It's the story of the writer and of the place in Italy: Lucania, a forgotten and poverty filled area forgotten by geography and history, where he is banished for being anti-fascist.


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