On My Aunt’s Shallow Grave White Roses Have Already Bloomed
by Maria Mitsora
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Pub Date 18 Sep 2018 | Archive Date 3 Aug 2018
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Description
A collection of short stories by an acclaimed contemporary Greek writer, reminiscent of Lydia Davis and Jenny Offill
“Maria Mitsora’s short stories . . . challenge our previously held beliefs about the human psyche . . . [through] the passionately created, twisted worlds of her imagination.”—World Literature Today
This collection assembles sixteen of Maria Mitsora’s short stories in what adds up to a retrospective of the author’s work, spanning forty years. Moving across the urban netherworld of Athens to imagined Latin American towns and science‑fiction dystopias, Mitsora animates the alternatingly dark and revelatory aspects of the human psyche, depicting a world in which her protagonists are caught between reality and myth, predestination and chance, rationality and twisted dreams. Mitsora led a generation of writers whose work articulated major transitions in the Greek literary scene, from 1970s historical and political sensibilities shaped in response to the military Junta to a contemporary focus on a fragmented, multicultural world. Her consistent experimentation with the short story form—a dominant genre in Greek prose writing since the nineteenth century—ranges from psychologically dark, surrealist work to more recent reflective and poetic writings.
“Maria Mitsora’s short stories . . . challenge our previously held beliefs about the human psyche . . . [through] the passionately created, twisted worlds of her imagination.”—World Literature Today
This collection assembles sixteen of Maria Mitsora’s short stories in what adds up to a retrospective of the author’s work, spanning forty years. Moving across the urban netherworld of Athens to imagined Latin American towns and science‑fiction dystopias, Mitsora animates the alternatingly dark and revelatory aspects of the human psyche, depicting a world in which her protagonists are caught between reality and myth, predestination and chance, rationality and twisted dreams. Mitsora led a generation of writers whose work articulated major transitions in the Greek literary scene, from 1970s historical and political sensibilities shaped in response to the military Junta to a contemporary focus on a fragmented, multicultural world. Her consistent experimentation with the short story form—a dominant genre in Greek prose writing since the nineteenth century—ranges from psychologically dark, surrealist work to more recent reflective and poetic writings.
Advance Praise
“Maria Mitsora’s surreal short stories confront the gaping abyss of time and oblivion lurking in everyday encounters. Her meticulous vision of objects, words and desires remade for an ambiguous world is staged with a searing, primordial intensity, like that flash of light from a steel knife in Albert Camus’ The Stranger.”—Vangelis Calotychos, Brown University
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780300215762 |
| PRICE | US$16.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 200 |
