Christ Stopped at Eboli

'We're not Christians Christ stopped short of here at Eboli.' Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition to Mussolini Carlo Levi entered a world cut off from history and the state hedged in by custom and sorrow without comfort or solace where eternally patient the peasants lived in an age-old stillness and in the presence of death - for Christ did stop at Eboli.