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"This is an absolutely magnificent book (and there is an English version titled "Christ Stopped at Eboli"). The setting is the fictional town of Gagliano in southern Italy in the 1930s. The author, Carlo Levi, was exiled there because of his anti-Fascist activities, and that was a real event but the actual town was Aliano, in the same region. This is a region that history has passed by. It is impoverished and primitive and backward. The people are very strange with many interesting superstitions. They do not trust the government or any establishment, such as organized religion, although they appear to attend church and hold traditional Catholic beliefs. In the book, some people who visit have ideas for improving the lives of the people, but, incredibly, they do not want improvement. The book is basically non-fiction and Levi provides an astounding look into a culture full of contradictions. The characters and situations that Levi describes are compelling. The book is a classic worldwide."
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Cristo Si E Fermato a Eboli Tascabili Scrittori Carlo Levi 9788806177270 Books Reviews
- I was born in Turin the year that Levy was arrested, my father was arrested at the same time and sent to the same region for internal exile, though of course to a different village. Hence I feel a person in connection to this story. I had read this book decades ago, and now I am reading it again, in a group that meets for Italian conversation reading. In this process we have found out that Carlo Levy's account of Eboli still resonates. If you Google this author or the title of the book, your find links to several articles about the place, it's connection to Levy, and the fact that Carlo Levy had been instrumental in bringing this village in this region to the attention of Italy and the world. Several chapters in the book document they connection over the town to New York City where many had emigrated to.
The that non-native speakers of Italian in my group, find the reading not too difficult, despite of the text being peppered with words in the local dialect that are not found in a dictionary. (A Google search of the words yields explanations to most, though not all, of these dialectical phrases.) - This is an absolutely magnificent book (and there is an English version titled "Christ Stopped at Eboli"). The setting is the fictional town of Gagliano in southern Italy in the 1930s. The author, Carlo Levi, was exiled there because of his anti-Fascist activities, and that was a real event but the actual town was Aliano, in the same region. This is a region that history has passed by. It is impoverished and primitive and backward. The people are very strange with many interesting superstitions. They do not trust the government or any establishment, such as organized religion, although they appear to attend church and hold traditional Catholic beliefs. In the book, some people who visit have ideas for improving the lives of the people, but, incredibly, they do not want improvement. The book is basically non-fiction and Levi provides an astounding look into a culture full of contradictions. The characters and situations that Levi describes are compelling. The book is a classic worldwide.
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