FLOWING FROM AN ABSENT SOURCE: A Conversation with Dimitris Lyacos
Dimitris Lyacos’s Poena Damni is one of the most highly regarded works of contemporary European literature. Renowned for combining, in a genre-defying form, themes from literary tradition and elements from ritual, religion, philosophy, anthropology, the trilogy reexamines grand narratives in the context of some of the enduring motifs of the Western Canon, most notably violence, mental illness, […]
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Dimitris Lyacos’s Poena Damni is one of the most highly regarded works of contemporary European literature. Renowned for combining, in a genre-defying form, themes from literary tradition and elements from ritual, religion, philosophy, anthropology, the trilogy reexamines grand narratives in the context of some of the enduring motifs of the Western Canon, most notably violence, mental illness,
