. . . AND DREAMS ARE DREAMS

by Vassilis Vassilikos ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 9, 1996

Seven long stories by the eminent Greek author (of Z, 1968, among other novels) that depict his contemporary homeland as a kind of politically deranged funhouse in which abstract ideas assume colorful physical form and people's dreams influence and dictate their actions. Both ""The Almanac of Dreams"" (about the ultimate alternative newspaper) and ""History"" (the account of a cruise whose passengers seem to reenact the history of modern Greece) suffer from coyness and staginess, but in the briefer stories--especially the amusing ""The Transplant""-- Vassilikos wrests both high comedy and plangent emotion from the distracted immersion in (and retreat from) real life of the writer simultaneously harried and energized by ""the difficulty of expression in a world that keeps changing.

Pub Date: April 9, 1996

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: 261

Publisher: Seven Stories Press--dist. by Publishers Group West

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 15, 1996

Categories: FICTION