Blue

 

Blue is an authentic masterpiece which goes beyond the boundaries of current Greek writing and falls within the leading contemporary achievements of European prose… One of the very few books of which as a reader of 50 years and a critic of 40 years I have difficulty in understanding how it was written, associated at times with Rebeau Kafka and Becket… Blue is our literary passport to Europe. And the truth is I want to write a book about this book.

Review in Phileleftheros (one of the leading Cyprus newspapers) on 19th of July 1997 by the late Andreas Christofides, Minister of Education of Cyprus, Founder of the Cyprus Broadcasting Association and member of the Greek Academy.

Okeanis house in 1997 Greek
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A series of harrowing interlinked tales, the writer calls a Gothic story, set in the 17th century France.

The first chapter of the book begins in 1605 in a freezing afternoon at a convent in Aix en Province where a nun is possessed by demons, to move later on in the second chapter to the bedroom of the noble man Ambroise de Laon, in his chateau of the Middle Ages town of Cluny just waking up today from recurring nightmares and dreams. The Blue color is spread everywhere…

The first book of this trilogy celebrates the power of creation as a strong antidote to the restless human mind.