Christ stopped in Eboli

Christ stopped in Eboli ( Cristo if E fermato has Eboli ) is a novel of Carlo Levi published in 1945.

“ Not siamo cristiani. Cristo if E fermato has Eboli ” “We let us not be Christian. Christ stopped in Eboli”. It is with this expression of the despair of the peasants of Lucanie, Basilicate of today, that the book owes its title.

Young doctor Turin ois, member of the movement Justice and Freedom, Carlo Levi is confinato , exiled, relegated by the authorities Fasciste S in a moved back area, Lucanie. We are in the the Thirties. Over there, the Malaria ten-per-cent tax the population which lives already in a utter destitution. Levi tells what he saw, which he sees. It paints with its brush and its feather the portrait of an area given up with its sad fate and reports the lifestyle of its inhabitants, their habits, their beliefs, at the same time offering to the Italian literature some of its more beautiful pages (translated into 37 languages, this book is traditional of Italian version besides).

The novel of Levi is completely autobiographical.

Today still, one can visit with Aliano, the village where it was confined, the house where it lived, to see its burial and to admire some of its pictorial works.

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