biography
pronunciation:
[layvee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1902–75)
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| biography:
| Painter and writer, born in Turin, Piedmont, NW Italy. A doctor, he embarked on a career as a Impressionist painter, in opposition to the Fascist accademism (‘Eroe cinese’, 1930–1, Levi Foundation, Rome). A member of the anti-Fascist movement Giustizia e libertà, he was sent into internal exile (1935–6) at Aliano, Lucania, where he was inspired to write Cristo si è fermato ad Eboli (1945), which combines the experience of his own exile with the isolation of the poor Southern village where he has been sent. He also wrote travelogues, including Le parole sono pietre (1955), Il futuro ha un cuore antico (1956), and La doppia notte dei tigli (1959). |
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