Summary
Vera Mutafčieva: Alcibiades the Great
In this novel, the historical theme leads us towards a contemporary philosophical-ethical reading of human destiny, while through characters and a past riddled with conflicts, Vera Mutafčieva unravels the face of the present and shows all the drama of human existence. Faithfully reconstructing the classical period of European history, in Alcibiades the Great he offers its unusual interpretation. Through the fate of the famous Athenian statesman, general and traitor, whose opportunism and desire for power contributed to the defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian War, Mutafčieva introduces us to the world of ancient Greece.
Through a careful analysis of the protagonist, the author aims to outline what prevails in the character of a modern man. She defines it as "Alkibiadism": "living is an animal ecstasy - the need to do everything imaginable, to live; it is longing for a crowded space, for the people, for the audience, for the army."
Simultaneously with this novel, Sandorf & Mizantrop published - for the first time in a Croatian translation - Plato's Alcibiades.
Vera Mutafčieva began her literary activity in 1952. writing expert articles and monographs on the history of Bulgaria in the Ottoman Empire and on the history of the Balkans. She is the author of thirty-five novels and more than eighty articles. Sandorf also published her masterpiece, the novel Slućaj Džem.
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