Trapped in nightmarish dead ends, the “castaways” and “hermits” attempt to change their predetermined future in search of authenticity, harmony and hope.
Weary creatures of a bleak age, dominated by accumulated information stocks and vast cellular communication networks, telematic life and the invisible conspiracies of power to suppress anything different that does not identify with the inert, indifferent and neutralized mass, they are inflamed by the desire for freedom. In flashes of irrational heroism, they are often lost, utterly defeated. More rarely, they become stars blazing in grey skies…
Dionysis Kalamvrezos was born in Zakynthos. He studied Law and Modern History in Athens, London, and Paris.
He has served at the Permanent Mission of Greece to the United Nations, as well as at the Greek Embassies in Moscow, Beijing, and other locations.
His articles and studies on issues of international law and politics, on the Greek diaspora in the former USSR, as well as on science fiction literature, have been published in newspapers and journals.
Our publishing house has released his books Stories of Hermits, Shipwrecked Men and Exiles, The Disease and the Lotus Flower, The Machine Stopped, and The Multiple World.