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A Crumpled Dress

Stavros Lagkadianos

Stavros Lagkadianos’s novel describes, in a direct yet highly poetic manner, the life and personality of an exceptionally fascinating woman.
Stavros Lagkadianos’s novel describes, in a direct yet highly poetic manner, the life and personality of an exceptionally interesting woman. It is no coincidence that the beautiful girl of ’37 is identified with the crumpled dress as the title of her life. Fear, intolerance, envy and guilt are hidden in the folds of her dress. Eleftheria, the heroine of the book, insisted on wearing her crimson dress creased. But what is Freedom? An escape from the established and the sickly, or a flight towards the suspicious, the diseased, driven by passion and unconfessed dreams? The Freedom of the times and of aimless quests? Freedom from conscience and guilt? Or perhaps a place that claims such freedom as its own? Or the freedom of a woman walking a tightrope between her inner and outer worlds? What would she wish to avoid? What has she endured?
  • Author Stavros Lagkadianos
  • Pages: 340
  • ISBN: 978-960-7721-88-4
  • Publication: 2003
  • Dimensions: 21 x 14,5
  • Categories: Literature, Books, Greek Literature

Stavros Lagkadianos

Stavros Lagkadianos was born in Piraeus in 1954 and practises law. His books include: "En-Dyo Kato", Estia 1985, "From One to 31", Estia 1988, "Only with the Wind", Nea Synora 1994, "Wrinkled Dress", Ikaros 2003.
Alongside his literary work, he was involved in artistic photography, focusing primarily on black-and-white portraits of Roma people.

A Crumpled Dress

A Crumpled Dress

Stavros Lagkadianos

Stavros Lagkadianos’s novel describes, in a direct yet highly poetic manner, the life and personality of an exceptionally interesting woman. It is no coincidence that the beautiful girl of ’37 is identified with the crumpled dress as the title of her life. Fear, intolerance, envy and guilt are hidden in the folds of her dress. Eleftheria, the heroine of the book, insisted on wearing her crimson dress creased. But what is Freedom? An escape from the established and the sickly, or a flight towards the suspicious, the diseased, driven by passion and unconfessed dreams? The Freedom of the times and of aimless quests? Freedom from conscience and guilt? Or perhaps a place that claims such freedom as its own? Or the freedom of a woman walking a tightrope between her inner and outer worlds? What would she wish to avoid? What has she endured?

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