QUESTION: You have recently come back from Paris where the French edition of your book Like a Novel entitled Dikolon (the carnival mask bearing on its back its dead brother, a personal reference to the loss of his own brother Kiourtsakis experienced) was presented. What was the response?
KIOURTSAKIS: It is too early to say ... You know, modern Greek literature and modern Greek culture in general are essentially strange, not to say non-existent territories in France. Greece is not in vogue, except for the problems it causes in the euro zone (as if they are not innately inherent for the European currency). This is how mainstream media show it as they impose their fashions, even in literature. However, even the mere fact that the book was published by a small but nevertheless esteemed-among-literary-circles publishing house, Verdier, closely linked to the best bookshops in France, and the fact that many bookshop owners have already read it and loved it is a good sign, perhaps not only for my work.
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