Kizila Boyali Saclar
by Kostas Mourselas
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"Emmanuel Retsinas (call him Louis) flows like a river in full flood through Red Dyed Hair, the brilliant first novel by Greek playwright Kostas Mourselas. Louis is the "almost man," once and forever lumpen and anarcho-communist, sometime circus daredevil, part-time yacht captain, full-time subverter of propriety, morals, order. Destroyer, builder, provocateur, catalyst extraordinary." "Spanning four decades of contemporary Greek life as seen from the bottom of the barrel, the novel is an show more inspired mixture of social satire and political history, a compendium of the bizarre, the erotic, the banal and the unbearable - peopled by a crazed yet touching cross-section of social rejects and climbers, betrayed leftists and police informers, of con-men become businessmen, of whores and bouzouki singers, pimps and greengrocers." "In scene embedded within scene, Red Dyed Hair spins a tale of social and personal cowardice and treachery against a distant backdrop of courage betrayed at the cost of death."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved show lessTags
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- First words
- Τον Εμμανουήλ Ρετσίνα, τον επονομαζόμενο Λούη, μία λέξη τον χαρακτηρίζει, ένα επίρρημα, το σχεδόν.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Γαληνεμένη όμως θα τη δεις!» έλεγε και ξαναέλεγε κάθε φορά που πίναμε τα ουζάκια μας στο ουζερί του κυρ Λάμπρου, στο Χατζηκυριάκειο, καθώς την αγναντεύαμε, από ψηλά, στο πέλαγος, να κινείται!
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 889.334 — Literature & rhetoric Classical & modern Greek literatures Modern Greek literature Fiction 20th century 1945-1999
- LCC
- PA5610 .O86 .V3520 — Language and Literature Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature Byzantine and modern Greek literature Individual authors
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- English, French, Greek, Turkish
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