MICHAEL MITSAKIS
Translated by David Ricks

Among the finest achievements of Greek writing at the turn of the twentieth century, Mitsakis’s short prose pieces combine vivid description, psychological depth, irony and an eye for human cruelty and self-deception. Memory, melancholy and a sense of the fragile boundary between reason and madness permeate his work, and the urban space (whether Athens or Patras) emerges as a living presence. Mitsakis’s stories are remarkable for their atmospheric intensity and formal experimentation, anticipating many concerns of European modernism. Their originality has come to be fully recognised only decades after his death.

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