"Christ Stopped at Eboli" - Christ Stopped at Eboli

... Later, while criticizing Croce, Gramsci also took an interest in folk culture as well as the culture of the intellectuals, and advocated the importance of reading the worldview and outlook on life of the southern people in folk culture. Meanwhile, P. Levi, who was exiled to a remote village in Lucania due to his anti-fascist activities in the 1930s, published a work entitled "Christ Does Not Stop at Eboli" about his experiences there (1945). Although Levi was initially perplexed by the deeply magical practices and beliefs that had taken root among the peasants of southern Italy, he reinterpreted them not as a problem of backwardness, but as an inherent cultural element linked to the activities of daily life, and presented a record of southern society from the inside that had been missing in previous studies of the south. ...

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…　その後グラムシはクローチェを批判しつつ，知識層の文化とともに民俗文化にも関心を注ぎ，民俗文化のなかに南部民衆の世界観および生活観を読み取ることの重要さを唱えた。一方，1930年代の反ファシズム活動でルカニア州の寒村に流刑となったP.レービは，そのときの経験を《キリストはエボリに止まりぬ》(1945)と題して発表した。レービは南イタリアの農民の間に根を下ろしている呪術的性格の濃い慣行と信仰に最初とまどいながらも，それを遅れの問題としてでなく，日常生活の営みと結びついた固有の文化要素としてとらえ直し，それまでの南部論に欠けていた南部社会の内側からの記録を提出した。…

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