KAI OI BIASTAI ARPAZOUSIN AUTEN... [The Violent Bear It Away]

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KAI OI BIASTAI ARPAZOUSIN AUTEN... [The Violent Bear It Away]

By Flannery O'Connor, translated by Alexandros Kotzias

1965

First Greek edition of O'Connor's second and final novel, translated by major postwar Greek novelist, critic, and journalist Alexandros Kotzias.

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Price: $125.00

KAI OI BIASTAI ARPAZOUSIN AUTEN... [The Violent Bear It Away]

While still writing THE VIOLENT BEAR IT AWAY, O'Connor referred to the novel as her "Opus Nauseous"; by the time the manuscript was complete, she was left "in that state of not knowing whether it works or is the worst novel ever written." To the novelist John Hawkes, she wrote, "I don't think many people will like it, but it will mean something to me if a few people do," and upon correcting the proofs, "await[ed] the critical reception with distaste and unanticipation." In fact, the top end of critical reception was (and is) hugely favorable, but O'Connor was able to console herself with the strong suspicion that those who praised it did not understand it. O'Connor was favored with a translator strikingly well-matched in sensibility: the heroes of Kotzias's own novels "are often outcasts, underdogs, down-and-outs, social misfits. Their language is the language of terror, betrayal, sexual violence, physical or psychological abuse" (Moschos). Scarce; OCLC locates just two holdings.

Read more: Moschos, "Obituary: Alexandros Kotzias," The Independent; O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor; Srigley, Dark Faith: New Essays on Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear it Aawy.

The Object

First printing. Athens: G. Fexis, 1965. 7.75'' x 5''. Original cream wrappers printed in black and red. All edges tinted red. 158 pages. Light edgewear, faint soil to wrappers.

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