num_pages: 275
description: It was to Lucania, a desolate land in southern Italy, that Carlo Levi―a doctor, painter, philosopher, and man of letters―was confined as a political prisoner because of his opposition to Italy's Fascist government at the start of the Ethiopian war in 1935. While there, Levi reflected on the harsh landscape and its inhabitants, peasants who lived the same lives their ancestors had, constantly fearing black magic and the near presence of death. In so doing, Levi offered a starkly beautiful and moving account of a place and a people living outside the boundaries of progress and time.
language: English
title: Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year
titlecomplete: Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year (FSG Classics)
genres: 20th Century, Biography, Travel, Literature, Italian Literature, Italy, Classics, Nonfiction, History, Memoir
ratings_count: 8152
places: Basilicata (Italy), Aliano
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux