2024-05-31 11:11:20
The theme of the rebirth of the deserted Greek countryside, from a totally surprising perspective, is the main focus of Stamatis Vassilaros’s e-book “Resurrection of a village”, the presentation of which passed off on Wednesday afternoon on the Archaeological Museum of Ioannina.
This time the answer shouldn’t be supplied by “outdoors assist” from group packages or help funds, however by the ingenuity of the hero who, as a younger Odysseus, returns from America to his abandoned village and, shocked by the abandonment, conceives an authentic concept of restoration and its rebirth from the ruins. The answer is the institution of an idiosyncratic growth firm with the imaginative identify “Village Resurrection”. Shareholders and buyers are abnormal, on a regular basis individuals, who contribute to the preliminary capital of the hero, in order that they’ll see their village come alive once more. A central axis, which permeates the philosophy of the entire venture, is the factor of tradition, which characterizes each the respect for the preservation of the pure structure of the panorama and the relationships between individuals, that are impressed by kindness, simplicity, reciprocity, solidarity, ethics and humanitarianism. Thus, individuals from varied areas of Epirus – that is the place of motion – collect within the desert village of “Petri”, which is then enriched with residents of different ethnicities, Albanians, Germans and Athenians from different areas of Greece, and many others., making a multicultural canvas. And all this written in a easy, unintelligible vernacular language.
The author Stamatis Vassilaros primarily based his inspiration, as he himself confessed, on Sotiris Sarandos’ award-winning documentary in regards to the deserted village of Crete, the place the clock stopped in 1970. “For years my paradise, after I moved from America, was my particular homeland, Ikaria, till, due to my daughter Dimitra, I bought to know Epirus. Right here I found my second paradise. However I used to be horrified at the concept that abandoned villages might be exploited by the French, Italians and even the Japanese!” he mentioned. About his heroes, he mentioned that almost all of them are actual individuals, which he enriched and reshaped for the wants of the plot.
The writer and his e-book have been offered to the general public by the journalist Filimon Karamitsos, the writer and editor of publications Kostas Livieratos, the author-archaeologist Kostas Sourev and the psychiatrist Fotis Morogiannis.
The writer’s play between the true and the imaginary was underlined by the audio system. “The writer’s proposal is that we may be wherever we wish, rebuild the homes from scratch, convey individuals, there shall be work. The query is whether or not this may be applied underneath at this time’s situations”, burdened Mr. Karamitsos. The writer Kostas Livieratos, in flip, underlined the play between the place and the utopia that occupies your entire work. Professor Kostas Sourev distinguished that the hero-writer, by way of his personal rebirth and experiential relationship with the place, managed to provide components of utopia, primarily based on actual information. Lastly, the psychiatrist Fotis Morogiannis characterised the e-book as “a journey and a dream from at this time’s atopy to utopia”.