Ebook {Epub PDF} With the People from the Bridge by Dimitris Lyacos

Review of book: WITH THE PEOPLE FROM THE BRIDGE In truth, I suspect it’s almost better not to know too much about this backstory. By withholding information, Lyacos’ and Sullivan’s text, sparse and menacing, challenges the reader to create their own story, and the book is all the better for it. by. Dimitris Lyacos, Shorsha Sullivan (Translator) · Rating details · 65 ratings · 7 reviews. Acclaimed by critics worldwide, With the People from the Bridge is a unique distillation of literary genres, an all-in-one densely layered poem, play, postmodern epic, a /5(7).  · Dimitris Lyacos: Poena Damni: I: Z Exit; II: With the People from the Bridge; III: The First Death Translated from the original Greek by Shorsha Sullivan. Follow the news these days, or take even a casual glance at social media, and you can easily be .

With the People from the Bridge (Poena Damni) by Dimitris Lyacos, Shorsha Sullivan. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, , Dimitris Lyacos is one of the leading figures in new European writing. His seminal trilogy Poena Damni (Z EXIT, With The People From The Bridge, The First Death), originally written in Greek over the course of eighteen years, has been translated into English, German, Italian, Spanish, French and Portuguese and is widely performed across Europe and the USA. Review of book: WITH THE PEOPLE FROM THE BRIDGE In truth, I suspect it's almost better not to know too much about this backstory. By withholding information, Lyacos' and Sullivan's text, sparse and menacing, challenges the reader to create their own story, and the book is all the better for it.

Dimitris Lyacos (Greek: Δημήτρης Λυάκος; born Octo) is a contemporary Greek poet and playwright. He is the author of the Poena Damni trilogy. Lyacos's work is characterised by its genre-defying form and the avant-garde combination of themes from literary tradition with elements from ritual, religion, philosophy and anthropology. Dimitris Lyacos’s long, tripartite poem, Poena Damni, is one of the most important and challenging literary works to come from Greece in the past generation. “With the People from the Bridge” is not the poem of a Christian apologist, but of an agnostic thoroughly penetrated by Christian. With the People from the Bridge. Review by Tiffany Austin. Valley Voices Review, Issue June , Mississippi, USA. We are truly “with the people” as we experience a man attempting to open the coffin,bring to life, and leave with a lover. Lyacos’ work is at once a broad me-andering of.