... And Dreams Are Dreams

by Vassilis Vassilikos, Mary Kitroeff (Translator)

Overview

Greece's most acclaimed living novelist gives us a magical realist portrait of contemporary Europe and contemporary Europeans. Here are seven tales that explore the themes of materialism, post Cold War politics, love, religious faith, and the power of imagination. In the tradition of Gabriel García Márquez and Luigi Pirandello, Vassilikos writes of the fantasies within reality, the spirit in existence, and the art within life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781609801618
Publisher:	Seven Stories Press
Publication date:	02/27/2018
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Born in 1933 in Kavalla in Northern Greece, VASSILIS VASSILIKOS grew up mostly in Salonika. After the military coup in 1967, he spent seven years in exile, returning to Greece in 1974. Author of some 120 books, translated into more than twenty foreign languages, Vassilikos is Greece's formost living novelist. His novel, Z, was adapted for film by Costa Gavras, winning the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1969.