First published in 1978, this novel, celebrated in Greece as a great modern work, is about a biographer writing a book about the eponymous Glafkos Thrassakis, a Greek writer--a book commissioned by Thrassakis's ex-lover, a Danish countess. As he embarks on his research, the biographer finds that everything known about Thrassakis's life is a ...
"By turns moving and scathingly satirical . . . Vassilikos has been so rarely translated into English; one can only hope this complex, multilayered novel will change that."-Mary Park, "The New York Times Book Review" A brilliant work of the imagination as well as an inspiring commentary on writing, the story follows a biographer's investigation ...
In this collection of stories, Greece's most acclaimed living novelist gives us a vivid and complex portrait of contemporary Europe and contemporary Europeans. Here are seven tales that tell, sometimes whimsically and sometimes bitterly, of the old world facing new dilemmas, of grandchildren and grandfathers.
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