Re-thinking Carlo Levi's Christ Stopped in Eboli
Event Details
Lucus a Lucendo. A Place of Light ((2019, Caucaso/Luce Cinecittà). Film screening and panel discussion with the filmmakers, Alessandra Lancellotti and Enrico Masi. RSVP: info@primolevicenter.org Presented by CUNY Calandra Institute and the
Event Details
Lucus a Lucendo. A Place of Light ((2019, Caucaso/Luce Cinecittà). Film screening and panel discussion with the filmmakers, Alessandra Lancellotti and Enrico Masi.
RSVP: info@primolevicenter.org
Presented by CUNY Calandra Institute and the Consulate General of Italy
Hunter College Ida K. Lang Recital Hall, Room 424-North Bldg. East 69th St. bet. Park & Lex. Avenues (South entrance)
With the expression “Lucus a non lucendo,”1 Carlo Levi describes, in Cristo di è fermato a Eboli, the landscape of Lucania (Basilicata), where the Fascist Regime confined him as an enemy of the state. In the light and darkness of the region, a desert in which the writer imagines a “little Jerusalem,” Levi’s human and artistic gaze moves from Turin’s horizon toward the workers, mothers, and children: southerners whom the nation had conquered and abandoned. His nephew Stefano Levi Della Torre and historian Carlo Ginzburg trace the steps of Levi’s journey and the reflection of his writings in the landscapes of his confinement. Alessandra Lancellotti’s camera and questions accompany them across her ancestral land.
(1) Latin homophonic puzzle deriving “lucus” (lightless grove) from “lucere” (to shine).
Stanislao Pugliese on Carlo Levi:
