World Republic of Letters #: Mechanisms of Loss

Two Novellas

World Republic of Letters #: Mechanisms of Loss
David Connolly, Michel Fais, Katerina Schina, Vangelis Hatzivasileiou
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2 Feb 2021 US
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9780300237177
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A duet of provocative novellas that examine contemporary Greek identity, translated by one of the foremost experts in Greek literature From esteemed Greek writer Michel Fais comes a pair of novellas that explore the stories we choose to tell about the lives we pretend to live. Aegypius monachus is a semi-autobiographical snapshot of a man roaming the streets of Athens, reflecting on his tumultuous marriage and the childhood roots of his failure at love. Lady Cortisol dramatizes a conversation between one man and one woman, highlighting the miscommunications and mixed signals that happen in dialogue with the other. With a foreword by acclaimed Greek translator and literary critic Katerina Schina and an afterword by journalist and critic Vangelis Hatzivasileiou, these fragmented, staccato novellas explore the ways in which we sabotage our rare chances at love, plunging into the interior of the mind and exposing the things we do not say aloud.

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"Michel Fais is one of the most enterprising contemporary Greek writers, able to reinvigorate his themes and techniques and engage his readers with subtle narratives. Mechanisms of Loss contains two of his finest novellas. "-Dimitris Tziovas, University of Birmingham "Fais has a remarkable literary sensitivity to troubled inner geographies that defy logical explanation. Evoking the emotional frequencies of Kafka' s writings, the powerful centrifugal force of compulsive self-observation propels both novellas in Mechanisms of Loss. "-Bart Soethaert, Freie Universitat Berlin "These two novellas are emblematic of the work of a writer whose place in the modern Greek literary canon is assured. Fais' s narrators-compelling, indignant, neurotic, rambling; their vernacular rhythms deftly captured in David Connolly' s translation-are searching for answers across the urban landscapes of their daily lives like ghosts trapped in a world that offers no salvation. "-Panos Karnezis, author of Little Infamies "There' s no doubt that Michel Fais' s fiction transformed the Greek literary landscape of the late twentieth century. These two novellas display exquisitely this unique writer' s pivotal tropes: the quirky workings of memory, inflections in narrative voices so torrential they yield to parody, and a language that veers towards self-destruction. "-Eleni Papargyriou, University of Patras
Michel Fais is a literary critic and editor of the books section for the influential Greek newspaper Efimerida ton Syntakton. David Connolly is a retired professor of translation studies whose translations have won awards in Greece, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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ISBN-13: 9780300237177
Published: 2 Feb 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 197mm
Width: 127mm
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 666g
Pages: 160

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