Words are stones
impressions of Sicily.
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Author
Publication
1958 - Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
53,000 words, Guess
Page Count
212 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL6249110M
- OCLC Control Number959220
- OCLC Control Numberwordsarestonesim00levi
- Library of Congress Control Number58010512
Classifications
- DDC914.58
- LCCDG865.6 .L413
Description
A selection of the essays and newspaper articles written by Carlo Levi in the early 1950's about the economic and social conditions in Sicily at that time -- conditions that extracted a heartbreaking price from the contadini and laborers, not limited to malnutrition, malaria and madness. A lucid presentation of how the old noble families -- with the help of the Mafia -- obstructed government attempts at land reform and used bribery, theft, bullying, and murder to keep their tenants in grinding poverty.
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- Words are stones: impressions of Sicily.
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