Word: eboli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christ Stopped at Eboli (see BOOKS), Italian Author Carlo Levi tells movingly of an Italian village too tiny and remote (according to local tradition) even for the attention of the Messiah. In the messianic fervor of Italy's Communists today, however, no village is too remote. North & south where no road leads and no Christian Democrat cares to venture, the Communists are on hand to persuade, threaten or cajole with promises of worldly salvation. Last week, from Rome, TIME Correspondent Emmet Hughes cabled a revealing glimpse of the way humbler party officials work their wonders in two little towns...
CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI (268 pp.)-Carlo Levi, franslated by Frances Frenaye-Farrar, Straus...
...being out of civilized circulation; they and their forebears had lived thus for untold centuries-since the legendary days when Prince Aeneas and his Trojan followers founded the Roman race. "We're not Christians," the peasants gravely told Painter Levi; "Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli"-the point at which the highway leaves the blue Gulf of Taranto and loses itself in Lucania's arid wastes...
Painter Levi spent only one year in Gagliano, because he was one of the political prisoners to whom the triumphant Fascists granted amnesty after the fall of Addis Ababba. Christ Stopped at Eboli, a best-seller in Italy, is Levi's account of this year of exile. It is another instance of an able, discerning painter taking up a pen and thereby putting professional writers in the shade...
Malnutrition, pale half-brother of the Third Horseman of the Apocalypse, rode the tide of spring into war-ravaged Europe. From the shattered ghost town of Eboli in southern Italy, a TIME correspondent cabled this description of its horrifying work...