Αριθμός Σελίδων : 194
Εξώφυλλο: Μαλακό εξώφυλλο
Γλώσσα : Αγγλικά
Γλώσσα Πρωτοτύπου : Αγγλικά
Τόπος Έκδοσης : Λευκωσία
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NATIONAL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2014
Andreas Karayan’s novel Dark Tales is a coming-of-age, bildungsroman, concerned with the artistic development of the author, a genre which is rare in the Greek language. In Dark Tales the protagonist, the narrator, familiar to us from other books by Andreas, is a sensitive and provocative artist searching for the truth about art and life, through his travels. His journeys take him to Berlin during the fall of the Wall, to Athens during the dictatorship and to Alexandria after the Arab Spring.
His wandering footsteps are guided by the vital quest for authenticity in art, friendship and love. Through the confessional nature of his narrative, the author builds his own theory of life, reclaiming the erotic union of soul and body, away from social compromise and guilt, as a great good. The novel, deeply philosophical and political, opposes the structures of power that check erotic desire and sexuality. In doing so it demolishes stereotypes, and gives respect to Difference.
Dark Tales follows Immoral Tales (Armida Books, 2014 also the recipient of the National Prize for Literature 2011)
| ISBN: 978-9925-573-25-7 |
Karayan Andreas |
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Andreas Karayan was born in Nicosia, Cyprus, in 1943. He studied medicine at the University of Athens and graduated in 1967. He moved to London to specialise in psychiatry, but was seduced by the atmosphere of the late ‘60s and abandoned medicine in favour of art, studying at the Central and Camberwell Schools of Art. Following this, he took an engraving course in Germany and lived in Berlin for a considerable time. In 1978, he presented his first exhibition at the Ora Gallery in Athens. He represented Cyprus at the Venice Biennale in 2001, and at the Cairo Biennale in 2006. He also illustrated poems of K. P. Cavafy, which were published in Berlin. From 1978 to 2004, he involved himself with journalism, theatre and cinema criticism. After an invitation from the Library of Alexandria in 2007, he lived in the city and produced a series of works on Alexandrian themes, which were exhibited at the Library. Nowadays, he lives and works in Nicosia, Alexandria and Athens. |
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