Carlo Levi was a painter, writer, and antifascist Italian from a Jewish family, and his political activism forced him into exile for most of the Second World War. While in exile, he wrote Christ Stopped at Eboli, a memoir, and Fear of Freedom, a philosophical meditation on humanity's flight from m[...]

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. While there, Levi reflected on the harsh [...]

With his typically perceptive insights, Levi writes evocatively on his experiences in India: his interview with Pandit Nehru; his tour of a tent city at a political convention; his meeting with a Hindu nationalist party. This is a new addition to the tradition of Western writing on India, made all t[...]