This Sunday, esteemed Sydney author and historian Vrasidas Karalis visits Melbourne to launch his new book The Demons of Athens, accompanied by award-winning poet Peter Rose, editor of the Australian Book Review.
The launch – organised by the Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne – takes place at the Greek Centre, 168 Lonsdale Street from 3.00 pm.
Widely-praised, The Demons of Athens chronicles the reflections of its author on a visit to Greece in the midst of the country’s economic and social implosion since 2009.
Fusing fiction, reportage and autobiography to illustrate the social collapse of the country, The Demons of Athens has been described by UK biographer and journalist Nicholas Murray as “a courageous, angry and powerful book, in which like James Joyce, Vrasidas Karalis can be said to have written ‘a chapter in the moral history of my race’ “.
Vrasidas Karalis holds the Sir Nicholas Laurantos Chair in Modern Greek Studies at the University of Sydney. He has published extensively on Byzantine historiography, Greek political life, Greek cinema and contemporary political philosophy.
The launch is open to the public and admission is free.