The plain of Thessaly. Odysseus as a conniving, vengeful beggar with the moral sense of a cockroach - this is the antihero of Andreas Karkavitsas' (1865 - 1922) Ο ζητιάνος (The Beggar, 1896/7), which is apparently the first novel written entirely in demotic Greek. After preferring the purist kat...
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