Books by Carlo Levi

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.

Offers a philosophical meditation on humanity's flight from moral and spiritual autonomy and our resulting loss of self and creativity. This volume locates the human abdication of responsibility in organized religion and its ability to turn the sacred into the sacrificial.