The book: "Eboli - say the Lucanians among whom Levi was exiled by fascism - is the last town of Christians. Christian means man. In the following towns, ours, people do not live as Christians, but as animals." Italo Calvino says in one of the two texts introducing this volume: "The peculiarity of Carlo Levi lies in this: he is the witness of the presence of another time within our time, he is the ambassador of another world within our world. We can define this world as the world that lives outside our history in front of the world that lives within history. Naturally, this is an external definition, it is, let's say, the starting situation of Carlo Levi's work: the protagonist of 'Cristo si è fermato a Eboli' is a man engaged in history who finds himself in the heart of a bewitching, magical South, and sees that the reasons at stake for him no longer apply here, other reasons and other oppositions are at stake, at the same time more complex and more elementary." The author: Carlo Levi was an Italian writer, painter, and antifascist. Among the most significant narrators of twentieth-century Italy, he is best known for the novel Cristo si è fermato a Eboli, which made him one of the major spokespersons for the southern question in the post-war period.
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The book: "Eboli - say the Lucanians among whom Levi was exiled by fascism - is the last town of Christians. Christian means man. In the following towns, ours, people do not live as Christians, but as animals." Italo Calvino says in one of the two texts introducing this volume: "The peculiarity of Carlo Levi lies in this: he is the witness of the presence of another time within our time, he is the ambassador of another world within our world. We can define this world as the world that lives outside our history in front of the world that lives within history. Naturally, this is an external definition, it is, let's say, the starting situation of Carlo Levi's work: the protagonist of 'Cristo si è fermato a Eboli' is a man engaged in history who finds himself in the heart of a bewitching, magical South, and sees that the reasons at stake for him no longer apply here, other reasons and other oppositions are at stake, at the same time more complex and more elementary." The author: Carlo Levi was an Italian writer, painter, and antifascist. Among the most significant narrators of twentieth-century Italy, he is best known for the novel Cristo si è fermato a Eboli, which made him one of the major spokespersons for the southern question in the post-war period.
