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Μακαβέττας
Σκηνικό της αφήγησης η βάση της 7ης Τεθωρακισμένης Ταξιαρχίας, στα χρόνια της δικτατορίας, όπου ο Συνταγματάρχης Σταμάτης Ξηριάς (γνωστός και ως "Γορίλλας") ζώνει ξαφνικά το στρατόπεδο με τανκς και εγείρει απαιτήσεις από τον Πρόεδρο. Το Επαναστατικό Συμβούλιο συνεδριάζει εσπευσμένα και το φίδι καλείται να βγάλει από την τρύπα -ποιος άλλος!- ο Αντισυνταγματάρχης Αχιλλεύς Μακαβέττας, που καταφθάνει επί τούτου στην Καρδίτσα επί κεφαλής μιας μικρής ομάδας επιλέκτων.
Τα ερωτήματα κυριαρχούν: τι προσπαθεί να κρυφακούσει η ημιπαράλυτη αδελφή του Μακαβέττα Ευρύκλεια, πίσω από τις κλειστές πόρτες των δωματίων του ξενοδοχείου "Αστέρια"; Ποιο ρόλο παίζει στην πραγματικότητα η νεαρή στάρλετ Ζέζα Φίλη, πρωταγωνίστρια των "εθνικών" υπερπαραγωγών του Ελληνοαμερικανού Τζων Έκτωρ; Ποια κίνητρα κινούν τους μυστηριώδεις Λοχαγούς Ζήβο, Μπουντόβα και Χριστόπουλο και ποιοι επιτέλους απαρτίζουν την περιβόητη "οργάνωση-φάντασμα" των Ζηλωτών; Στο θίασο του δράματος έχουν προστεθεί νέα πρόσωπα και το παιχνίδι της εξουσίας θα παιχτεί σε ανοιχτή σκηνή.
Τα ερωτήματα κυριαρχούν: τι προσπαθεί να κρυφακούσει η ημιπαράλυτη αδελφή του Μακαβέττα Ευρύκλεια, πίσω από τις κλειστές πόρτες των δωματίων του ξενοδοχείου "Αστέρια"; Ποιο ρόλο παίζει στην πραγματικότητα η νεαρή στάρλετ Ζέζα Φίλη, πρωταγωνίστρια των "εθνικών" υπερπαραγωγών του Ελληνοαμερικανού Τζων Έκτωρ; Ποια κίνητρα κινούν τους μυστηριώδεις Λοχαγούς Ζήβο, Μπουντόβα και Χριστόπουλο και ποιοι επιτέλους απαρτίζουν την περιβόητη "οργάνωση-φάντασμα" των Ζηλωτών; Στο θίασο του δράματος έχουν προστεθεί νέα πρόσωπα και το παιχνίδι της εξουσίας θα παιχτεί σε ανοιχτή σκηνή.
252 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1989
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About the author
Apostolos Doxiadis
6 books278 followersApostolos Doxiadis (Greek: Απόστολος Δοξιάδης) was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1953, and grew up in Greece.
Although interested in fiction and the arts from his youngest years, a sudden and totally unexpected love affair with mathematics led him to New York's Columbia University at the age of fifteen. He did graduate work in Applied Mathematics at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, working on mathematical models for the nervous system.
After his studies, Apostolos returned to Greece and his adolescent loves of writing, cinema and the theater. For some years he directed professionally for the theater, and in 1983 made his first film Underground Passage (in Greek). His second film, Terirem (1986) won the prize of the International Center for Artistic Cinema (CICAE) at the 1988 Berlin International Film Festival.
Since the mid-eighties, most of Apostolos' work has been in fiction. He has published four novels in Greek, Parallel Life (1985), Makavettas (1988), Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (1992) and Three Little Men (1997). His translation of Uncle Petros was published internationally in 2000, to great critical acclaim, and has since been translated into over thirty languages. Apostolos now writes in both Greek and English.
Apart from his work in fiction, Apostolos has written two plays. In 1999, he wrote and directed the musical shadow puppet play "The Tragical History of Jackson Pollock, Abstract Expressionist", accompanied by a volume of texts and images, Paralipomena. In 2006, his play Seventeenth Night had a year-long run in an Athens theatre. The play is a fictional recreation of the last days in the life of the great logician, and father of the incompleteness theorem, Kurt Gödel.
In autumn 2008, Apostolos, completed the graphic novel Logicomix, co-authored with Christos H. Papadimitriou, with art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie di Donna. The book's story is based on the epic quest for the foundations of mathematics. Logicomix was published in Autumn 2009 by Bloomsbury in the U.S. and the U.K.
Apart from his work in the various modes of storytelling, in the past few years, Apostolos has been studying the relationship between mathematics and narrative. He is currently editing a volume on mathematics and narrative with mathematician Barry Mazur, of Harvard University, due to be published in 2010.
Apostolos lives in Athens with his wife, the novelist Dorina Papaliou, and their children.
Although interested in fiction and the arts from his youngest years, a sudden and totally unexpected love affair with mathematics led him to New York's Columbia University at the age of fifteen. He did graduate work in Applied Mathematics at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, working on mathematical models for the nervous system.
After his studies, Apostolos returned to Greece and his adolescent loves of writing, cinema and the theater. For some years he directed professionally for the theater, and in 1983 made his first film Underground Passage (in Greek). His second film, Terirem (1986) won the prize of the International Center for Artistic Cinema (CICAE) at the 1988 Berlin International Film Festival.
Since the mid-eighties, most of Apostolos' work has been in fiction. He has published four novels in Greek, Parallel Life (1985), Makavettas (1988), Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (1992) and Three Little Men (1997). His translation of Uncle Petros was published internationally in 2000, to great critical acclaim, and has since been translated into over thirty languages. Apostolos now writes in both Greek and English.
Apart from his work in fiction, Apostolos has written two plays. In 1999, he wrote and directed the musical shadow puppet play "The Tragical History of Jackson Pollock, Abstract Expressionist", accompanied by a volume of texts and images, Paralipomena. In 2006, his play Seventeenth Night had a year-long run in an Athens theatre. The play is a fictional recreation of the last days in the life of the great logician, and father of the incompleteness theorem, Kurt Gödel.
In autumn 2008, Apostolos, completed the graphic novel Logicomix, co-authored with Christos H. Papadimitriou, with art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie di Donna. The book's story is based on the epic quest for the foundations of mathematics. Logicomix was published in Autumn 2009 by Bloomsbury in the U.S. and the U.K.
Apart from his work in the various modes of storytelling, in the past few years, Apostolos has been studying the relationship between mathematics and narrative. He is currently editing a volume on mathematics and narrative with mathematician Barry Mazur, of Harvard University, due to be published in 2010.
Apostolos lives in Athens with his wife, the novelist Dorina Papaliou, and their children.
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