Memoir set in MÁLAGA
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Location(s): Aliano
Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
Era(s): First half 20th Century
‘We’re not Christians, Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli.’ Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition to Mussolini, Carlo Levi 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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