| Summary: | By analyzing Carlo Levi’s complete works – including letters and articles–, this essay attempts to deepen the critical reading that finds the structural unity of Levi’s opus in the journey. Writing itself is a journey, a continuous transition, a proceeding both circular and horizontal. Travelling is, at the same time, a possible discovery and a possible change of the Self. It is a route towards knowledge: one must return to the earliest times in order to move towards the future. The journey as a quest of the origins was the reason for Levi’s tour around India, described by means of a series of reports published in La Stampa. Since his first report, Levi points out that in the exotic and magic otherness of this oriental land, he finds again the archaic face of our world, a face that resembles his face.
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