Meeting Petro Márkaris

To Baris with love  

These days I was reading the books of petros Márkaris. i liked it a lot and I would like to present it to all these readers who, when they see a greek name, fly away. that ignorance towards the great Greek authors must end today, my dear ones !!!
Petro Márkaris was born in Istanbul in 1937. He did not stay there. He studied economics in Vienna and Stuttgart. Then, he settled in Athens, where he has resided since then.

Petros Márkaris was a film screenwriter. Wrote the screenplay of "The look of Ulysses" with Theo Angelópoulos Another one of my Greek Essentials !!! And Ulysses reminds me of a friend. I cried once because you did not like my poetry. Remember B. C.?

The great character of the pen of Márkaris is the Athenian commissar Kostas Jaritos. His series of novels is emblematic and analyzes the past and the future of Greece. I would tell them that it even allows us to see their future possibilities.

I recommend them as the doctor recommends a medicine for the Soul. You will see . . The problem that we have in the West is that each time we read less and each time we look at less author cinema and the seventh art is replaced by a commercial and egalitarian formula. It is as if globalization will try to standardize the other because it imposes a system of values ​​in which everything must be anglozajonizar, just in case.

I say, is not Greece the cradle of Our Civilization? Every time I see more ignorant young people about Greece, the origin of Democracy and Culture to which they belong and that hurts me a lot. I will be trying to recommend a book by Petros Márkaris per month in the next year. God will be like that. Hugs from Argentina for everyone. . .

Lía Olga Herrera Soto