Ο εξουσιαστής

by Angelos Terzakis

Genres: Plays

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1942

About the author

Greek writer of the "Generation of the '30s". He wrote short stories, novels and plays.

He was born in Nafplion in 1907 and lived there until 1915, when he moved to Athens, where he finished school and studied law at the University of Athens. He made his first appearance in Greek literature in 1925 with the short story collection The Forgotten. He took part in the war of 1940 and documented this experience in some of his short stories and especially in his book April. In 1969 he was awarded the prize of Literary Excellence (Αριστείο Γραμμάτων) of the Athens Academy.

He died on 3 August 1979 in Athens.

His son, Dimitri Terzakis, is a noted composer.

Novels
Prisoners (Δεσμώτες, 1932)
The Decay of the Tough Ones (Η παρακμή των Σκληρών, 1933)
The Purple City (Η Μενεξεδένια Πολιτεία, 1937)
Princess Isambo (Η πριγκηπέσσα Ιζαμπώ, 1945)
Journey with Esperus (Ταξίδι με τον Έσπερο, 1946)
The Twilight of Men (Το λυκόφως των ανθρώπων, 1947)
Without God (Δίχως Θεό, 1951)
The Secret Life (Η μυστική ζωή, 1957)
The Novel of the Four (Το Μυθιστόρημα των Τεσσάρων, 1958) (written together with Karagatsis, Myrivilis and Venezis)

Short story collections
The Forgotten (Ο ξεχασμένος, 1925)
Automn SYmphony (Φθινοπωρινή συμφωνία, 1929)
Of Love and of Death (Του έρωτα και του θανάτου, 1943)
April (Απρίλης, 1946)
Affection (Η στοργή, 1944)

Plays
Emperor Michael (Αυτοκράτωρ Μιχαήλ, 1936)
Wedding March (Γαμήλιο Εμβατήριο, 1937)
The Cross and the Sword (Ο σταυρός και το σπαθί, 1939)
Helots (Είλωτες, 1939)
The Master (Ο εξουσιαστής, 1942)
The Great Game (Το μεγάλο παιχνίδι, 1944)
Pure (Αγνή, 1949)
Theofano (Θεοφανώ, 1956)
Night in the Mediterranean (Νύχτα στη Μεσόγειο, 1957)
The Happiness Ransom (Τα λύτρα της ευτυχίας, 1959)
Thomas the Two-Souled One (Θωμάς ο δίψυχος, 1962)
The Ancestor (Ο πρόγονος, 1970)

Reviews

[Shaimaa أحمد · Rating 4 out of 5]

يستهين الرجل دائماً بحزن المرأة متناسياً أنه بهذا يعلمها الإنتقام منه
بين غرور الرجل و كبرياء المرأة تدور أحداث هذه الرواية

[Rehab Saad · Rating 4 out of 5]

A simple novel, a pure story, somewhat influenced by foreign writers who were moody at that time. The adult Terzakis sets up timeless scenes that seem to compose the treaty of the time between the First and Second Worlds. This first one, written in 1932, was written at that time and made a need to talk about the era and not about it. But he is conscious, he hears the effervescence, the inflamed wave. Somewhere is mentioned in a cover for the remedies that Germany denied. Only in 1932 was not only Germany that was smoking, but in each country there was a guerrilla, different, and somehow blind, activity. Still, it is a Terzak who seems to be silencing himself, putting a cutter at some point, fearing to touch the whole range of his thoughts, lexing them to get bones. Not yet. And yet, through a simple story, the climate of an era follows that which Xenopoulos defines in the War and Present Time, perhaps even in the Night of degeneration.


It is the time when the first case of an offense with the Lindberger's baby and the loneliness that has been perpetuated for years is the era of blind anger that followed a meaningless war to sink into another meaningless war in response.


And in ours is the time that followed the woman's extortionist conditions that fared perfectly in time through Price and Money. The woman is already crying for what she is entitled to. It is the only match that makes sense, everyone else seems to have no substance.


Together we meet the writer's need not to let anything fall down. Still does not give the interpretation, it does not outline it completely

[غِيد آل غَرَب · Rating 4 out of 5]

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