The League of Noble Peasants is a novel that does not hesitate to tell the ridiculous version of life that is not embellished by grandiose and romantic ideas nor by the invocation of deeper and transcendent meanings in people's everyday life. Here, life is described as it is – an adventure without rules. Which unfolds within the ill-formed social environment of the civilization of the instincts: in it, lawfulness, honesty, moral excellence and virtue and noble feelings fall away or are set aside, and in their place rise up tastelessness, hypocrisy, power which rewards and protects entanglement and all kinds of illegality, personalization, bribery, prostitution and under-the-table dealings. In the novel, the role of warped consciences and civilized instincts is taken up by the "noble peasants", a group of outcasts whose lowly lives are choreographed as a folk operetta of their lofty aspirations, and provide the reader with a concise "guide to decadence". . Where does this all end? In the self-sarcastic self-awareness that what counts in life is its aesthetic: not the big words but the refined pleasures, without considering their price and understanding that they have no special meaning beyond the self-evident.
The League of Noble Peasants
Author:
Achilleas Fakatselis,100 in stock
The only job I've done in my life was as a journalist at a time when there was still room for the hairless heads and the enemies of careerism to write with their minds in society and not in their pockets. Almost thirty years in Freelance I wrote like this, always living on the basic salary, but I had a good time, a manager once scolded me for making my hobby a profession! I stayed on the ramparts until they closed the newspaper and my writing stopped. Then, I said to take up another art, but always with this purpose, to talk to strangers. So I started writing novels, telling the truths I want to tell with imagination. My first novel, the BLINDING LIGHT, was released in 2019, which taught me the great value of the disposition and distribution of thinking, a game that I thought was easy but it is not. In general, I traveled a lot in Greece and abroad, even overseas, for journalism but also for other purposes, more humane, but never for tourism! I got caught up in politics by staying away from it, I became like a theatergoer who doesn't like the play and when he leaves the theater he tells the others how bad it was. I also stayed away from marketing, refusing even an award that was given to me on my own. Because I didn't like dragging distinctions given by other people, so that we all seem superior to each other. Such a crooked tree I left as a teenager from Ioannina where I was born several decades ago and only a passer-by found myself there again, and I don't even want to return to my roots, I took them and keep them with me, I have nice memories, and that's enough for me - why should I see him again my place wearing the glasses of old age now? Nobody cares about the other details of my life. And what I said I said so that those who catch me in their hands can see how I lived, so with whom they have to do and what kind of things they can read written by such a person.
A.F.
Weight | 0.5 kg |
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Writer | |
Cover Illustration | Maritina Fakatseli |
Pages | 264 |
Dimensions | 14x21 cm |
Publisher | Source Publications |
ISBNs | 978-960-626-493-1 |
Weight | 0.5 kg |
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