作品情報

母語をめぐる旅が、帰属と自己像を更新する。

ギリシャ系フランス人作家の二重言語的な感覚を通して、母語、記憶、故郷の意味を問い直す作品。

書籍情報

出版社

Autumn Hill Books

発売日

2017-02-15

ページ数

188ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

15.24 x 1.52 x 20.32 cm

ISBN-13

9780982746691

ISBN-10

0982746695

価格

3091 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/Literature & Fiction/Women's Fiction/Domestic Life

This book chronicles the quest of a man named Pavlos as he is attempting to solve the mystery of the Delphic Epsilon while also coming to terms with his mother’s recent death. After twenty years living and working in Paris as a newspaper cartoonist, Pavlos returns to his native Greece with no job and no clear plans for the future, beyond occasionally checking in on his widowed father. The novel traces his Quixotic adventures—from his mission to collect words that start with the Greek letter E to his unsuccessful attempts to find his place within Greek intellectual and artistic circles—with the author’s characteristic humor and sharp observational eye. At its heart this is a story of living in-between: between languages, between the past and the present, between life and death.

Vassilis Alexakis is the author of Avant, Foreign Words , La Langue Maternelle, and Papa, all in French, and Talgo , which he wrote in Greek and later translated into French. He has also produced four films and a collection of drawings. He lives in Paris. Harlan Patton is a French-to-English translator. He lives in Greenville, South Carolina.

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