Christ Stopped at Eboli  

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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)

Christ Stopped at Eboli (Italian: Cristo si è fermato a Eboli) is a book by Carlo Levi, published in 1945, giving an account of his exile from 1935-1936 to Aliano, a remote town in southern Italy, in the region of Lucania which is known today as Basilicata. In the book he gives the town the invented name 'Gagliano'.

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Film adaptation

In 1979, the book was adapted into a film, directed by Francesco Rosi and starring Gian Maria Volontè as Carlo Levi.

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