The Beggar (UNESCO collection of representative works)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780892413720 (0892413727)
ASIN: 0892413727
Publish date: 1982-06-30
Publisher: Aristide D. Caratzas
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
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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 by Andreas Karkavitsas, Translated by William Wyatt, now listed on BookLikes)