Words are stones
Words Are Stones is a short book written in the middle of the 1950s by Carlo Levi (Turin 1902-Rome 1975), one that remains one of the landmarks in the history of the mafia and anti-mafia literature. The book was written in post-World War II Sicily, when the agrarian reform had already proved to be a...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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Against the mafia
Year: 2024, Pages: 101-118 |
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| Summary: | Words Are Stones is a short book written in the middle of the 1950s by Carlo Levi (Turin 1902-Rome 1975), one that remains one of the landmarks in the history of the mafia and anti-mafia literature. The book was written in post-World War II Sicily, when the agrarian reform had already proved to be a fraud that worked by allocating the poorest and driest land to poor farmers and preserved the privileges of the landowners and their gabellotti. Those were the years in which the new mafia order was born in a violent and turbulent manner, and the old order died in a similarly violent and turbulent manner. The mafia killed the last trade union leaders in the great slaughter of the 1940s and 1950s, a bloodbath unknown in any other democracy. One of the last leaders to be killed was Salvatore Carnevale, the (dead) protagonist of the pages that follow. These pages condense some of the driest and most powerful notes on the relationship between mafia and violence, on the relevance of the mafia to the principles of legality and on justice and the agrarian world. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 118 |
| ISBN: | 9783031296192 |
