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The Beggar (UNESCO collection of representative works) - Community Reviews back

by Andreas Karkavitsas, Translated by William Wyatt
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Leopard
Leopard rated it 10 years ago
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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