- Social life and customs, Journeys, Travel, Peasantry
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.
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Contemplative, grave, earnest and prestige.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Carlo Levi
- First published
- 1946
- Pages
- 255
- Publisher
- Time-Life Books, G. Einaudi, Noonday Press
- Editions
- 61
- Language
- Italian, English
- ISBN
- 9780374503161
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