Presentation of the new book by Manos Eleftheriou — Campaign Pharmacy
FOUGARO welcomes on Wednesday 22 March at 19.00 Manos Eleftheriou for the presentation of his latest novel, Campaign Pharmacy (Metaixmio Press). The author will have a discussion with Yannis Stamos, head of the Anthos Library, answer the audience's questions and sign copies of his book.
Campaign Pharmacy
This is a novel with autobiographical elements and a loose plot, as it is made up of a host of stories whose only connection is the protagonist's emotional attachment to the various figures. Campaign can be read to denote one's personal struggle in life, while Pharmacy refers to one's beloved persons who act as a medicine against the wounds from the struggle.
The protagonist is an aged writer who returns to his birthplace and follows images, shadows and scents in search of the "medicines" needed by those who "suffer" from memories and loneliness.
He chats with the living and the dead, talks to himself and telles the monologues of other lonely people whose voices, truths and imaginations make up a theatrical monologue about a torrential life that rolled and still rolls on the "rails" of the Campaign Pharmacy, the most poetic prose ever written by Manos Eleftheriou.
Manos Eleftheriou
Born in Hermoupolis, Syros in 1938, Manos Eleftheriou is a poet and prose writer and one of the most important living Greek lyric writers. He won the State Novel Prize 2005 for The time of chrysanthemums. In 2013 he received the poetry award of the Kostas & Eleni Ourani Foundation for his overall oeuvre. As lyric writer he lays claim to some 400 songs, having collaborated with most major Greek composers, including, among others, Mikis Theodorakis, Manos Hadjidakis, Demos Moutsis, Yannis Markopoulos, Stavros Xarhakos, Christos Leontis, Stavros Kouyoumtzis.
