Winner of the Via Reggio and Mondadori prizes in Italy, this is an
artistic achievement, exceptional in the evocative quality of its
prose. This is a picture of the desolate reaches of Lucania, to
which the author, painter and political prisoner, was sent for
three years. As a former doctor, Don Carlo earned the affection of
the sick peasants whom he cared for. This is a picture of a lost
land, victim of feudal carryovers. Here was the sameness of the
days, the futile endurance, and at the close, the ban against Don
Carlo's practising, which led the author to secret measures in
order to help the people... One may question an American audience
for this, but there is charm and compassion here- for the
perceptive reader. (Kirkus Reviews)
'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.
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