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No one from our generation had the chance. We were overtaken by other events. War, December, civil war, dictatorship. We remember all the old things. They bore us. We don’t say we want to forget them; they are our entire life. How many times have we said we would rebuild from the beginning! It is not courage that we lack… Achilles' Fiancée is a grand book that marks a turning point in our modern prose. It is grand because since the time of Tsirka and the Ungoverned States, no other Greek writer has attempted to embrace the journey of modern Hellenism not only through history but also across geographical space. This Achilles' Fiancée is a "farewell to arms," to the dream and vision of an entire world, a Requiem for the Generation of the Victorious Revolution that was lost. What makes Alki Zei's book not just another testimony is the way in which experience, myth, and history intertwine, or rather the art with which history transforms into a novel and the novelistic material is historicized.
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Achilles' Fiancée, Alki Zei
- Language
- Released
- 1991
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- Title
- Achilles' Fiancée
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Alki Zei
- Publisher
- Kedros
- Released
- 1991
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 374
- ISBN10
- 9600404801
- ISBN13
- 9789600404807
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Wars, Greece
- Rating
- 4.15 out of 5
- Description
- No one from our generation had the chance. We were overtaken by other events. War, December, civil war, dictatorship. We remember all the old things. They bore us. We don’t say we want to forget them; they are our entire life. How many times have we said we would rebuild from the beginning! It is not courage that we lack… Achilles' Fiancée is a grand book that marks a turning point in our modern prose. It is grand because since the time of Tsirka and the Ungoverned States, no other Greek writer has attempted to embrace the journey of modern Hellenism not only through history but also across geographical space. This Achilles' Fiancée is a "farewell to arms," to the dream and vision of an entire world, a Requiem for the Generation of the Victorious Revolution that was lost. What makes Alki Zei's book not just another testimony is the way in which experience, myth, and history intertwine, or rather the art with which history transforms into a novel and the novelistic material is historicized.