IL COLONNELLO LIAPKINE COPERTINA FLESSIBLE

Περιγραφή

In the story of Colonel Liapkine, a Russian exile who found safety in Greece after the October Revolution, M. Karagatsis’s favourite themes have reached full maturity: orgiastic realism, erotic desire, the primeval strength of the physical landscape on which the psychological world of the characters is reflected, the mixture between the fiction of the story and the authenticity of the story, and the encounter/clash between different cultures and identities, sometimes radically irreconcilable. On everything shines inexorably Phoebus, the Sun god who blinds the minds and to whom the Acclimatization under Phoebus refers, the title of the trilogy of which Colonel Liapkine constitutes the first part. The rise and fall of the protagonist, unable to construct a new identity in an environment that is completely alien to him, transports the reader to a world dominated by the merciless power of history, which like an imperturbable stone mill grinds the bodies, souls and consciences of the mortals.