LAGGAS
Essentially, this is the first successful production of an original modernist work that comes directly from the empirical survey of modern Greek society. What does it oversee? The then recent Greek-Turkish war of 1897, the war that caused so much fury and so much pain in Greek society. But not only the war. It also examines the transition of Greek society from the slow-moving structures of the countryside to the mobility of the city and, also, the formation of the new attitudes and morals brought by the culture of the city. How does he oversee all this? In a completely new way. Not by describing them as an objective observer, but by refining them through the contradictory feelings of his hero, Leonidas Laga.
