The book by Michalis Katrakis “Creatures you meet crossing the wild wilderness of Tyto Alba” is presented at Polyhedros

The book by Michalis Katrakis “Creatures you meet crossing the wild wilderness of Tyto Alba“, published by Sirtari publications, will be presented on Saturday, October 19, at 7 pm, at Polyhedros.
The author Minos Efstathiadis will speak about the book.

“I would prefer these suggestions not to exist at all but I judge that they must, mainly so that the reader has the only resource that may be of any interest or necessity for the reading of this collection. I will, however, limit myself to the basics. The short stories that follow are an experiment. Some hero, almost accidental, born of the moment, exists within a condition. “A teenager walks down a long avenue.” “A woman, lying on the couch, looks at photos on her cell phone.” A man says: “I’m not bad”. From then on, his path is his own. It’s always exciting to have someone write like this because at the same time they’re a writer, they’re also a reader. It’s also kind of scary to see how deep you can go. I tried to give the writing process the absolute freedom of existence. She flew from where she knew (every flight starts somewhere and if we have to talk about words, then the starting point is almost always the words that others wrote and we loved very much) and where she wanted (and if we have to talk about words, I mean towards where it could stand). It became a Tito Alba. A bird of death that transports souls to another (another, at least) world. I went with her. And these creatures I met walking their way through its wild wilderness.”

[…] The edge of the bay was now clearly visible. Ithaca panting moved the gears in the bowels of this earth and Hypsicaminos spewed dust and opium gases obscuring the sun, painting the sun red, making the yellow dwarf a mute, many-sung star. She stood her ground. The foundation seemed sketchy to him, but it was in front of him, hundreds of meters high, red brick on top of red brick and at the joints small pebbles, colored glass rounded by the sea and the wind, grains of whitish sand, green leaves, shells that are now rare in the Seferic caves and cigarette butts… (From the presentation on the back cover of the book)

Michalis Katrakis was born in 1980 in Athens and grew up in Piraeus. He is a graduate of IHTTI Neuchâtel in the field of hotel business management. He has been systematically dealing with prose since 2005.