Dimitris Lyacos

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Full Name	Dimitris Lyacos
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	Oct 19, 1966(1966-10-19)
Age	58
Birthplace	Athens
Country	Greece
Birth City	Attica
Horoscope	Libra

Dimitris Lyacos Biography

Dimitris Lyacos is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on October 19, 1966 in Athens, Attica, Greece.

Dimitris Lyacos (Greek: Δημήτρης Λυάκος ; born October 19, 1966) is a contemporary Greek poet and playwright. He is the author of the Poena Damni trilogy. Lyacos’s work is characterised by its genre-defying form and the avant-garde combination of themes from literary tradition with elements from ritual, religion, philosophy and anthropology. The trilogy interchanges prose, drama and poetry in a fractured narrative that reflects some of the principal motifs of the Western Canon. Despite its length – the overall text counts no more than two hundred pages – the work took over a period of thirty years to complete, with the individual books revised and republished in different editions during this period and arranged around a cluster of concepts including the scapegoat, the quest, the return of the dead, redemption, physical suffering, mental illness. Lyacos’s characters are always at a distance from society as such, fugitives, like the narrator of Z213: Exit, outcasts in a dystopian hinterland like the characters 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 authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Thomas Pynchon and has been acknowledged as an exponent of the postmodern sublime as well as one of the notable anti-utopian works of the 21st century.

Lyacos was born and raised in Athens where he studied Law. From 1988-1991 he lived in Venice. In 1992 he moved to London. He studied philosophy at University College London with analytical philosophers Ted Honderich and Tim Crane focusing on Epistemology and Metaphysics, Ancient Greek philosophy and Wittgenstein. In 2005 he moved to Berlin. He is currently based in Berlin and Athens.

Dimitris Lyacos Net Worth

Dimitris Lyacos is one of the richest Poet from Greece. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dimitris Lyacos 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Z213: Exit uses the device of the palimpsest to present a fictional tissue combining elements of both ancient and modern sources as well as the “dialogue” of its two protagonists. It is composed of a series of fragmented entries in a fictional diary recording the experiences of an unnamed protagonist during a train journey into an unknown land. The man has been released – or escaped – from some time of confinement elliptically described in his journal and reminiscent of a hospital, prison, ghetto or enclave of some sort. His subsequent wanderings among desolate landscapes on the verge of reality are set in a closely detailed, and somehow Kafkaesque, atmosphere, undercutting the point that the most dreamlike occurrences are also the realest. Along the way, the protagonist delves deeper in what seems like a quasi-religious quest while, at the same time, his growing impression of being stalked introduces an element of suspense and a film noir-like quality. Thus, the text hinges on the metaphysical but is also reminiscent of an L.A. private eye in a 1940s detective novel closing upon an extraordinary discovery. Z213: Exit ends with a description of a sacrifice where the protagonist and a “hungry band feasting” roast a lamb on a spit, cutting and skinning its still bleating body and removing its entrails as if observing a sacred rite.

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Poena Damni is the most widely and best reviewed work of contemporary Greek literature in translation with its various editions having received 66 international reviews until autumn 2019, and acknowledged as “one of the most- discussed and most-lauded pieces of contemporary European literature”. It has been acclaimed for creatively surpassing the distinction between modernism and postmodernism despite it being firmly founded on a large variety of canonical texts of Western Literature. Most critics comment on the use of an intricate network of textual references and paraphrases of classical and biblical works, noting, at the same time, the work’s unique style and character. The trilogy has given rise to a considerable amount of scholarly criticism and is also part of various university curricula on postmodern fiction, while Lyacos has appeared in speculation lists for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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