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Carlo Levi. Lo sguardo della prosa nello sguardo della pittura

Whoever reads this book sets himself, together with the writer, in search of the broad correspondences between pictorial action and literary action present in the production of Carlo Levi, an author of the twentieth century who in the complex and remarkable panorama of Italian and southern literature occupies a crucial position for having skilfully intertwined narrative prose and documentary investigation. Christ Stopped at Eboli is a borderline work: the author through lived experience becomes aware, step by step, that crossing certain thresholds and penetrating the land of Lucania meant returning to the prehistoric magma of the origins, where time and history have different definitions than the common ones that are usually attributed. And so between painting and narrative prose, between the landscapes and portraits painted in Aliano and the intense and precise writing of Christ, to reach new goals of observation with the photographic reportage of Carlo Levi’s return to Lucania with Mario Carbone, a path is built evocative of investigation that brings disparate elements into contact, keeping itself continually open to the reading of multi-voiced languages.


Michela Marano, born in Irpinia in 1981, lives in Pratola Serra (Av) and is a teacher of literary subjects, scholar and passionate about Italian literature and the southern area. She is the author of collections in verse Frammenti in-versi, Fili d’aria riflessi, AmarTi AmarSi, of prose fiction Dialoghi sotterranei. She has received national and international acknowledgments.

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