Last travel story published in 1964, that time dedicated to Sardinia. Carlo Levi visited the island two times, ten years apart, in May 1952 and December 1962. The reflections that the author transcribes in his travel diary tell of a land with its myths and archetypes, a ‘barbaric and fairytale-like’ description, as Franco Antonicelli defines it, “a Sardinia of stones and shepherds, and of modern and living men”. The author dwells on describing the daily problems of the Sardinian land, collecting the places and faces of the innermost territory, telling in particular of areas that imprinted his memory, such as Nuoro, Orgosolo and Orune. The title Tutto il miele è finito takes its cue from a Sardinian funeral song in which a mother mourns her murdered son, comparing him to the honey that is no longer there, represents a land that is not motionless and timeless, but a reality in which we feel the change of history, starting from archaic and primordial images: “Here, in the island of the Sardinians, every going is a going back”.
