MY BELOVED GREECE

Austrian Edition

Warlamis always wrote and transformed his personal experiences as well as the values that inspired him into short stories. In 2010, we collected several of them in a volume entitled “REBECOME A GREEK” published by IANOS Publications.

These are twenty short, simple stories that hide within them timeless values and characteristics of Greek culture. It is no coincidence that Warlamis chose this period to publish. A difficult period for our homeland, not only for the economic crisis, but mainly for the crisis of values that our society is going through.

These twenty short stories remind us of the timeless identity of Hellenism. Values such as faith, friendship, solidarity, frugality, are not romantic elements of a bygone era, but the reserves of our culture that can get us out of this complex crisis, both on a personal and a state level.

The stories were also translated into German and published under the title “Mein geliebtes Griechenland”.

what they said…

…the texts of Warlamis, this distinguished Greek of the diaspora, overflow Greece. Every inch of it hides treasures of the ancient or Byzantine era, unexplored and unknown, but irrefutable witnesses to our historical continuity and our civilization. All of this together, the worship of ancient Greek architecture, the Christian tradition, folk beliefs, man and the sanctuaries of his soul, the harmony of nature and modern materialistic society are intertwined in an alloy and constitute the semantic background of this book….

It is a book that one literally “sucks” into. It is something extraordinary thematically and linguistically, and the author of "improbable". From the stories in the book, the symbolic "temple of St. Anthony the Younger", "Woman in Red", what a stimulating beauty! Descriptive or expressionistic prose written with pain. I also read "Kazoura", "Bullshit", "President", "Secret Place" and I could not help but laugh, which we so need, even if it makes us reflect, because it is philosophically founded and can lead us to tears. At the same time, the book is a careful and sympathetic publication, "Warlamically" illustrated.

… “My Beloved Greece by Warlamis is, therefore, a work that, as an economy and composition but also as a form of speech, touches our reading vision and sensitivity. With a polysemous poetic language and intense lyricism, it highlights the magic of nature and art, tradition and Greekness, which mobilize all the secret powers of the soul. However, its diffuse lyricism is intertwined with a critical realism, as revealed in the character and relationships of its heroes. At the same time, a tendency towards idyllic ethnography creeps in, as it highlights the vitality and dynamism of the popular soul and life in small provincial and island areas. In almost all of its narratives, the slogan of returning to the roots is presented as a way of securing our national identity.

Learn more!

Choose a story and read it to your class or even at home with the whole family. In the video we had secured, the author himself will welcome the presentation.