Little Infamies (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Panos Karnezis
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Time of Work: The 1950’s and 1960’s
- Setting: An unnamed Greek village
- Principal Characters: Father Yerasimo, Dr. Panteleon, Whale, Stella, The Landlord, The Mayor
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, Twentieth century, Rural or country life, Villages, Earthquakes, Modernization, Greece or Greek people
- Locales: Greece
Panos Karnezis’s Little Infamies is an impressive literary debut. Its nineteen short stories concern an isolated Greek village and its eccentric, squabbling, grasping inhabitants. Through the little infamies they visit on one another, and their brushes with the people outside the village, the reader witnesses the decline and destruction of the community. Karnezis, however, studiously tries to make the book about more than one simple, pathetic village. By leaving it unnamed, by referring to many of the villagers by their occupations or nicknames, and by leaving the time of the...
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