The True Story

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I was brought up in the catholic faith, with the Damoclean weight of original sin hovering over my head. Sex was a sin, because I learned that the apple our forefathers ate on losing Paradise was not an apple but a banana.

This is how the age of innocence begins and ends for the hero of True Story, taking its title from Lucian. Except that Lucian’s stories are untrue, whereas these are the true adventures, told with directness and humour, of a young man in Cyprus and Athens during the ‘50s and ‘60s, when the provincial and the cosmopolitan were in conflict, and collective suffering stifled personal tragedy or comedy.

Ouzounian Street, a microcosm of old Nicosia, the first erotic escapades, a Franciscan Friar’s catholic boarding school, sexual awakening, the discovery of “difference” and, later, years of guilt and confusion vividly come to life in a daring self-portrait, created by the painter Andreas Karayan, not with his brush this time, but with his pen, with which he demonstrates the art of portraiture in prose.

The true story follows Dark Tales (Armida Books,  2020) and Immoral Tales (Armida Books, 2014)

ISBN: 978-9925-601-04-2

Αριθμός Σελίδων : 180

Εξώφυλλο: Μαλακό εξώφυλλο

Γλώσσα : Αγγλικά

Γλώσσα Πρωτοτύπου : Αγγλικά

Τόπος Έκδοσης : Λευκωσία

Karayan Andreas

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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