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This week, political observers the world over would be watching the elections in Rome, Naples and some 2,400 municipalities in southern Italy, to see how well the Reds fare. But the conflicts and labels that agitate the rest of the world did not stir towns like Eboli and Anticoli...
...Eboli, wrote Novelist Carlo Levi, was where Christ stopped. He meant that beyond this dusty, windswept southern Italy city of 22,000, men lived without hope...
...Eboli needs housing; 85% of its houses were destroyed in battle. The average occupancy is more than three people to every room; in some there are nine and ten. Some 2,000 of its 8,000 workers are unemployed; the rest work only at harvest time. From month to month, Ebolitani rarely see a piece of meat. They have no plumbing; typhus is a periodic visitor...
...nothing narcotic about the year's novels from Italy. The two best were by Alberto Moravia: Conjugal Love, which dealt with a nasty marriage conflict without becoming nasty, and The Conformist, the case history of a weakling whose weakness made him a Fascist. Carlo Levi (Christ Stopped at Eboli) came a cropper with The Watch, a sympathetic but unfocused look at his postwar land, but Giuseppe Berto followed an uneven first novel (The Sky Is Red) with The Brigand, the story of an Italian Robin Hood which exposed the despair of ordinary people with a fine mixture of candor...
...spacious that G.I.s drove up & down it in their jeeps. These are bits & pieces, some of them very good, but they cannot make a book and they do not begin to make a novel. At 48, Carlo Levi is still the middling painter who wrote Christ Stopped at Eboli...