Constantine Ostas, a University professor is spending his holidays at his home village with his family. One very hot noon on August the 13th, he gets his books and archives and lies down in the garden under the shady pergola. There, he is overwhelmed by thoughts that turn into vivid memories and bring him back exactly twelve years ago at the same place. His memories begin from the day that he, as a graduate of the University, visits the house of his fellow villager Helen, who is a student at the School of Philosophy in the University of Athens and to whom he had been closely acquainted two years ago. Back then a mutual respect had developed between them which eventually evolved into mutual love, but without any continuation. The son of a big landowner of the village, John Kostoula was madly in love with Helen, but she rejected him discreetly. After that John tried to establish relations with Helen's sister, Alexandra, a schoolgirl, who also rejected him. This behaviour of Helen and Alexandra turned his love for Helen into hatred against Constantine when he learned that when Constantine came to the village, he went straight to her house and then went with her for hiking tours to the rocks... The memories of the professor of his love for Helen, the behaviour of John and his shepherd, (the sly Mitros) and the deep discussions with intense lyricism and metaphor about his love for Helen are covering the first nine chapters of the novel. And so it is a kind of 'boxing' with the past, but in the present! These memories are interrupted abruptly when the scene of the tragedy at the rocks is introduced - the death of Helen and John caused by falling rocks. Two years after Helen's death, Constantine married her sister, Alexandra, in respect to Helen's last wish that she shared with her father in her last breath, and acquired by this marriage a daughter of ten years, whom he named Helen. The landowner Kostoula donated half of his real estate in the area of the rocks to the church, and the other half - to the village community. Constantine bought his half estate at the rocks from the community by winning a contest a year ago. In the following chapters the lyrical and allegorical catharsis of the character is revealed. Mitros, chased by his remorse, reveals to the teacher, Constantine, that the tragedy at the rocks twelve years ago was not an "accident ", but a plan to assassinate him, which he and John had elaborated. After these revelations, the teacher decided to divide the land he had bought between the landless of the village, giving ten acres to Mitros, the killer of his beloved Helen! Also, the donated money to the community to build school with the stone from the rocks which he flattened and in their place created a garden...

Ta Vrahia: Enas Diahronicos Ymnos Ston Anthropo, to Pathos Kai Tin Agapi (Greek Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Stergiou, Dimitris

Erotica

Stergiou Limited

English translation of the Greek description of the book:  2015 was perhaps the most crucial year in modern Greek history. Through this book it becomes even more important; opening a window into the past, and a framework for understanding the future. Each chapter corresponds to one day and one event in 2015. Every event is traced back to its roots, that is, to events that may have occurred as long as 60 years ago. These events, whether political, economic, or social, vindicate the Greek people's disappointment in the old political system and their decision to support the first left-wing government since the dictatorship, which, nevertheless, brought them new difficulties. The journey trough time is instantaneous. The reader finds themselves simultaneously in the present and in the past. By the end of the day, they have gained the experience of history. To read the book is to complete a great puzzle where each piece is a fragment of the history of this country. The pieces of the puzzle become a framework, the big picture explaining much of what is happening today, and especially what is to come, since, as the writer repeatedly notes, paraphrasing Marx's dictum that "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce", in this country "History repeats itself as tragicomedy". This account by journalist Dimitris Stergiou is a time machine giving you insight into the past. Point of departure: 2015. Enjoy your reading!

Flashback: Η λεηλασία της Ελλάδας ... σ (Greek Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

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