Reading Archeology: Next station, Athens by Petros Márkaris

I keep my promise and recommend in this post a book by Petros Márkaris. I loved. This is his work "Next Station, Athens." They listened well. No. It is not a novel. It is a journey through Athens.

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

He has lived since he was a child in Athens and collaborated with the great Theo Angelópoulus in the film “The look of Ulysses”.

Do not trust. The book "Next Station, Athens" is not a delicious walk through Athens. It doesn't matter what the book cover says. Petros Márkaris tells us the story of each Athenian neighborhood. It has a unique authenticity. Many times it is painful. If you are empathetic to the dispossessed, the workers, the migrants and the victims of the Greek Military Board, lords of Death after the civil war that occurred in Greece after World War II this is a book for you.

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

I believe that Athens would have been the perfect victim if it weren't for the citizens who love her and fight for her from their 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, expression of authoritarian regimes or as I usually call it "economic Nazism."

All that is understood in this work. Read "Next Station, Athens" before the West dies of a "Modernity" attack.

Lía Olga Herrera Soto