Carlo Levi

the story of a year

Christ stopped at Eboli

Ce récit de Carlo Levi, publié en 1945 sous le titre Cristo si è fermato a Eboli, a constitué l’un des événements majeurs de la littérature italienne d’après-guerre. A mi-chemin de l’essai et de l’autobiographie, c’est un témoignage profondément humain et bouleversant sur la situation misérable et désespérée dans laquelle vivaient les habitants du Mezzogiorno avant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Carlo Levi y relate l’expérience qu’il a vécue en tant que médecin « confiné » (confinato, mis en résidence surveillée) à Gagliano, petit village de Lucanie (Basilicate) de 1935 à 1936. Pour faits d’antifascisme. Le titre de l’œuvre est à cet égard explicite : il reprend une phrase des paysans de Lucanie, affirmant que « sur cette terre sombre, sans péché ni rédemption, où le mal n’est pas un fait moral, mais une douleur terrestre, le Christ n’est jamais descendu ».

Cristo si è fermato a Eboli

Le Christ s'est arrêté à Eboli

Jean-Paul Sartre

Italo Calvino

Sabahattin Eyüpoğlu

Defne Kut

roman

İsa bu köye uğramadı

مسیح هرگز به اینجا نرسید

Winner of the prestigious Italian literary prize, Premio Vareggio, Words Are Stones offers an insightful and authentic portrait of Sicily and its people. Over a number of years, Italian writer Carlo Levi made three journeys to Sicily. He went on to chronicle his travels, penning a series of short essays that capture in miniature the essence of Sicilian life: its traditions, culture, and breathtaking landscape. Here, gathered in one comprehensive volume, these writings offer a rare and observant portrayal of an island whose people—though burdened by poverty, political upheaval, backwardness, and murder—retained a true generosity and graciousness of spirit. Italian writer and painter Carlo Levi is best known for his remarkable work, Christ Stopped at Eboli.

Impressions of Sicily

Words are Stones

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Christ Stopped at Eboli the Story of a Year

With his typically perceptive insights, Levi writes evocatively on his experiences in India, including his interview with Pandit Nehru, his tour of a tent city at a political convention, and his meeting with a Hindu nationalist party. This only available edition of a fascinating account of his impressions of the subcontinent is a valuable addition to the tradition of Western writing on India, made all the more fascinating by the influence that Levi’s famous memoir of exile Christ Stopped at Eboli has had on many Indian intellectuals. Published in 1945, that account of his time spent in exile in Italy after being arrested in connection with his political activism introduced the trend toward social realism in post-war Italian literature.

Essays on India

Carlo Levi was a painter, writer, and antifascist Italian from a Jewish family, and his political activisim forced him into exile for most of the Second World War. While in exile, he wrote Christ Stopped at Eboli, a memoir, and Fear of Freedom, a philosophical meditation on humanity's flight from moral and spiritual autonomy and our resulting loss of self and creativity. Brooding on what surely appeared to be the decline, if not the fall of Europe. Levi locates the human abdication of responsibility in organized religion and its ability to turn the sacred int othe sacrificial. In doing so, he references the entire intellecutal and cultural estate of Western civilization, from the Bible and Greek mythology to Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. This edition features newly published pieces of Levi's artwork and publication of the work. It also include an introduction that discusses Levi's life and enduring legacy. Fear of Freedom not only addresses a specific moment in history and a universal, timeless condition, but it is also a powerful indictment of our contemporary moral and political failures.

With the Essay, "Fear of Painting"

Fear of Freedom

storie di animali

Le ragioni dei topi

Maria Pagliara

Le tracce della memoria

viaggio nell' Unione Sovietica

Il futuro ha un cuore antico

conversazioni radiofoniche e interviste

Un dolente amore per la vita

lettere dal carcere 1934-1935

È questo il "carcer tetro"?

Quaderno a cancelli

Only a renaissance man could have described this glorious city in its heyday. And only Carlo Levi, writer, painter, politician and one of the last century's most celebrated talents, could depict Rome at the height of its optimism and vitality after World War II. In Fleeting Rome, the era of post war 'La Dolce Vita' is brought magnificently to life in the daily bustle of Rome's street traders, housewives and students at work and play, the colourful festivities of Ferragosto and San Giovanni, the little theatre of Pulcinella al Pincio; all vibrant sights and sounds of this ancient, yet vital city.

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