Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger 1953

In this magnificent book, which was awarded the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, when it appeared in France in 1953, deals with the chaos and absurdity of our times. Writing of the civil war which devastated Greece following World War II, Liberaki speaks of the “alter ego that each man carries with him and with whom he wages an incessant warfare of his own.”

The hero, Alexander, comes from an unusual family. He has two brothers, Phokion and Grigoris, and a sister, Aglaïa. But he also has half-brothers and a half-sister, his father having amused himself by giving the same names to both legitimate and illegitimate children, between the two families strange relationships emerge and the Other Alexander becomes a poetic drama that involves all existence.

Kastaniotis, 1995 [1950¹], 184 p.