Dimitris Lyacos' Z EXIT is a revelation. A masterpiece. Distinctly postmodern yet entirely unclassifiable, it is everything and nothing all at once. Allusions to other works of literature are endless, yet, never are they mocked or imitated/5(8). Dimitris Lyacos makes admirable additions to such fragmentary writing. If an experimental book can be grounded, Z Exit is more so than Samuel Becket’s How It is. Yet Lyacos’s novels echoes the muddy struggle and journey with and without Pim. Lyacos traps us in the tumult of a conflict which like disaster comes upon us and does not come. The art of translation is a gift and we, as English speakers and readers, have Shorsha Sullivan to thank for bringing us the work of Greek poet Dimitris Lyacos. In ZExit: Poena Dani, Lyacos’ middle collection in a series of three, we experience the world through the eyes of a prisoner as he.
Dimitris Lyacos' Z EXIT is a revelation. A masterpiece. Distinctly postmodern yet entirely unclassifiable, it is everything and nothing all at once. Despite the myriad references to literature, it is entirely new - I have never read anything like it, and this stunning translation is truly head-spinning. Dimitris Lyacos is the author of the Poena Damni trilogy (Z EXIT, With the People from the Bridge, The First Death).So far translated in twenty languages, the trilogy is one of the most widely acclaimed and best-selling works of contemporary European poetry. In Dimitris Lyacos's Z EXIT, nothing is permanent. A man with a red stain under his nose appears, disappears, reappears. Text is discovered, written, erased, rewritten, lost again. Dead friends are remembered, lovers are disappointed, bodies taken down to the sea. ZEXIT is the first book in Lyacos's Poena Damni trilogy.
Dimitris Lyacos makes admirable additions to such fragmentary writing. If an experimental book can be grounded, Z Exit is more so than Samuel Becket’s How It is. Yet Lyacos’s novels echoes the muddy struggle and journey with and without Pim. Lyacos traps us in the tumult of a conflict which like disaster comes upon us and does not come. Dimitris Lyacos' Z EXIT is a revelation. A masterpiece. Distinctly postmodern yet entirely unclassifiable, it is everything and nothing all at once. Allusions to other works of literature are endless, yet, never are they mocked or imitated. The art of translation is a gift and we, as English speakers and readers, have Shorsha Sullivan to thank for bringing us the work of Greek poet Dimitris Lyacos. In ZExit: Poena Dani, Lyacos’ middle collection in a series of three, we experience the world through the eyes of a prisoner as he.
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