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Michel Fais

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Michel Fais (born 1957 in Komotini, Thrace) is a Greek novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter, and literary critic. He works as editor of the books section for the Greek newspaper "Efimerida ton Syntakton" and teaches creative writing.
Fais' original literary work is comprised mainly of novels, short stories and theatre plays. For the collection "From the Same Glass and Other Stories" Fais was awarded the Greek State Literature Prize for the Short Story (2000). His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Romanian and English. Several of Fais' short stories were included in anthologies (e.g. Angelic & Black: Contemporary Greek Short Stories, 2006) or published in (literary) magazines all over the world, including China,
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Απ' το ίδιο ποτήρι και άλλε...

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Lady Cortisol

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Αυτοβιογραφία ενός βιβλίου

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Κτερίσματα

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Το κίτρινο σκυλί

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Από το πουθενά

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Aegypius monachus

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Το παγκάκι του κανένα

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Χαμένοι στο διαδίκτυο

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Όπως ποτέ

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“Τότε, εκείνο το τετράμηνο του περπατητού πένθους, διδάχτηκε τα δύο βασικά μυστικά της συναναστροφής. Το πρώτο ήταν ότι αυτός που μιλάει έχει ξαναμιλήσει, κι αυτός που δεν μιλάει δεν έχει ξαναμιλήσει, αλλά δεν αποκλείεται κάποια στιγμή ν' αρχίσει πάλι να μιλάει, ώστε κάποτε να ξαναμιλήσει - εξάλλου υπάρχει καιρός για όλους και για κανέναν. Το δεύτερο ήταν ότι αυτός που μιλάει, που γεμίζει τον χώρο μιας συνάθροισης με λόγια, που τρέμει τη σιωπή, που τη θεωρεί ένα βήμα μετά την αγένεια κι ένα βήμα πριν από τη βλασφημία, έχει μυστικά, μυστικά που τα σκεπάζει με λόγια, όπως η γάτα τα κόπρανά της με χώμα· κι ότι εκείνος που σωπαίνει συχνά σωπαίνει λαλίστατος, αφού ξελαρυγγιάζεται να φωνάζει προς όλες τις κατευθύνσεις, σαν τον χαμένο στην έρημο, ακούστε τη σιωπή μου, είμαι σιωπηλός σαν την πέτρα.”
Michel Fais, Απ' το ίδιο ποτήρι και άλλες ιστορίες

“Both the private and the public gaze of a writer is—luckily—worked over by the narrative gaze. For me, writing is linked to a half-erased image of tumult. Every time I write, I see my reflection therein. To be more precise, I dive into this old turmoil, like a swimmer diving into a rough sea. Sometimes I get exhausted, sink and drown. Sometimes, though, I reach a kind of shore. I take deep breaths and move on to the next book, to my next swim into the rough sea of fiction, of the self, and of the world.”
Michel Fais

“Words save us from truth. When we have the words for a thing, when we feel that we describe something exactly, we feel, at the same time, that the thing itself kicks us away, that it expels us from its meaning, that it abandons us in its own empty representation. In a strange sort of way, at the same time, the thing becomes the kick, the expelled meaning, its embalmed image. Even more so when that same thing, the thing you’re called upon to describe, is like resignation in flight, consumption in fear, devotion in panic.”
Michel Fais, Mechanisms of Loss

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