Reading Archeology: Next station, Athens by Petros Márkaris

I keep my promise and I recommend in this post a book by Petros Márkaris. I loved. It is about his work "Próxima estación, Atenas". They listened well. No. It is not a novel. It's a trip through Athens.

Petros Márkaris was born in Istanbul in 1937. He studied Political Science in Vienna and Stuttgart.

He lives since he was a child in Athens and collaborated with the great Theo Angelópoulus in the film "La mirada de Úlises".

Do not trust. The book "Next station, Athens" is not a delicious walk in Athens. It does not matter what the cover of the book says. Petros Márkaris tells us the history of each Athenian neighborhood. It has a unique authenticity. Many times it is painful. If you are empathetic with the dispossessed, the workers, the migrants and the victims of the Greek Military Junta, Lords of Death after the civil war that took place in Greece after the Second World War this is a book for you.

I do not recommend people who are ignorant of the Greek reality to read this work. First you must see in the media the Greek events of the last ten years. One has to be clear that politicians are corrupt and in the words of Markaris that: "they have abandoned the Greeks to their fate".

I believe that Athens would have been the perfect victim if it were not for the citizens who love her and fight for her from her humble homes.

If you dare to read this book, you will understand the history of Latin America and Africa from the 1973 oil crisis and the triumph of neoliberalism, the expression of authoritarian regimes or what I usually call "economic Nazism".

All this is understood in this work. Read "Next station, Athens" before the West dies of an attack of "Modernity".

Lía Olga Herrera Soto