Dimitris Lyacos
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Dimitris Lyacos is a Greek writer. He is the author of the composite novel Until the Victim Becomes our Own and the Poena Damni trilogy. Lyacos's work has been critically defined as post-tragic, is ch
Dimitris Lyacos at Genova International Poetry Festival 2024. Photo by Rosanna Ponsano
Poena Damni the Trilogy (3-Book Box Set, English Edition)
The First Death
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The First Death is a book by Dimitris Lyacos. It is the third part of the Poena Damni trilogy. The book is a fictional rendering of a poem that is translated by an inmate with the use of a dictionary
Dimitris Lyacos
…like the narrator of Z213: Exit, outcasts in a dystopian hinterland like in With the People from the Bridge, or marooned, like the protagonist of The First Death whose struggle for survival unfolds on a desert-like island. Poena Damni has been construed as an "allegory of unhappiness" together with works of…
Cover of Dimitris Lyacos' The First Death, Second Edition, 2017
Cover of Dimitris Lyacos' The First Death, First English Edition, 2000