The demons of Athens : reports from the great devastation / Vrasidas Karalis.

By:

Karales, Vrasidas [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Blackheath : Brandle & Schlesinger, 2014.Description: 266 pages ; 26 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781459692329

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

330.9495

Summary: "The narrator of the book starts a journey of discovery around the meaning of home, in a diary form, with a trip to Athens in the midst of the economic and social implosion of the country. He fuses fiction, reportage and autobiography in an attempt to illustrate the social collapse of Greece after 2009 and its subsequent lack of creative imagination. The book consists of brief snapshots based on episodes that take place in Athens ranging from people eating rotten food in garbage bins, to contemporary political discussions at the Greek Parliament and the representation of the struggle of ordinary people to make their living. "This is a courageous, angry and powerful book, in which like James Joyce, Vrasidas Karalis can be said to have written 'a chapter in the moral history of my race." -- Nicholas Murray, British biographer, poet and journalist.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book - 7-day loan	CYA Library Main Collection	330.9495 KAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000010678

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"The narrator of the book starts a journey of discovery around the meaning of home, in a diary form, with a trip to Athens in the midst of the economic and social implosion of the country. He fuses fiction, reportage and autobiography in an attempt to illustrate the social collapse of Greece after 2009 and its subsequent lack of creative imagination. The book consists of brief snapshots based on episodes that take place in Athens ranging from people eating rotten food in garbage bins, to contemporary political discussions at the Greek Parliament and the representation of the struggle of ordinary people to make their living. "This is a courageous, angry and powerful book, in which like James Joyce, Vrasidas Karalis can be said to have written 'a chapter in the moral history of my race." -- Nicholas Murray, British biographer, poet and journalist.