SOURCE: Wood, G. J. “Italian Villages.” Canadian Forum 27, no. 319 (August 1947): 117-18.

In the following review, Wood deems Christ Stopped at Eboli as a vigorous and colorful account.

The South of Italy has long been known to tourists as a land of brigands, poverty, and excessive heat. Although the brigands may have declined somewhat in prestige during this century, lured perhaps to those American centres which felt the need of their peculiar talents, the poverty and the uncompromising climate have remained. Into this stark area, with its forbidding mountains and its wretched villages, came Dr. Carlo Levi of Turin, banished thither in 1935 for his opposition to the Abyssinian Campaign, then about to begin. On Levi, physician, philosopher, and artist, was thus imposed an existence which might well have been the despair of other men of similar parts. However, determined to make the best of the situation, the exile set...