THE COLORS OF SINDRIVANIA OF FOKIONOS NEGRI

THE PALE SITRIVANIA OF FOKIONOS NEGRIS: "Over there in Negri, you doll, is it as you describe it to me?" Were such scenes made? Did they come out like that or did you miss them a bit? Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Rita Cadillac, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Onassis, Zozara Sapundzakis, Belmondo, Elytis, Ethnarch Karamanlis, Ritsos, Zozo Dalmas, Agnostos Polemos and Las Vegas, just like you described the place to me?"

 A tribute to the most rock 'n' roll pedestrian street of Athens

The Acid publications are happy to present the new book by Stefanos Tsitsopoulos, "The Pale Fountains of Fokion Negri", a paean in the neighborhood of Kypseli, a voluptuous fresco of the period, a novel with characters that acrobat on the borders of reality and fantasy.

Stefanos Tsitsopoulos takes the readers on a dizzying speed roller-coaster of decades, to meet real and non-existent people. From the Ramones and Milto Shaktouri to George Lanthimos, Yiannis Nasta of Xaxakes, the prankster Kanaris, Eric Clapton, but also Milto Rogotis, two ladies with dyed siel wool, the stripper Rita Kadilak and two close friends, Lina and Lilica – all protagonists of the book.

A meeting point, socializing, adventure and action, the legendary (pedestrian) road of Fokionos Negri, from Patision to Kypseli Square. From the prose of the book, the most important landmarks of Kypseli, the Select cafe, the gothic disco Rebound, the old pizzeria of Paezano, the legendary club Quinta and the "best bar in the world after Thermaikos" Au Revoir, jump out like an image of augmented reality. .

Time, joy, melancholy, repentance, travel, poetry, the loss of love, the right-waiting for happiness but also the conscious choice of loneliness as a permanent state of mourning, cross the book rushing like the torrent they say how it still flows under the Statue of the Dog and the fountains of Phokion.

THE COLORS OF SINTRIVANIA OF FOKIONOS NEGRI

Author Biography:

He makes a living from words. THE Stefanos Tsitsopoulos is a journalist, author and radio producer. He was born in Alexandroupoli in 1964 and spent his teenage years in Xanthi. Apart from Thrace, he also considers Thessaloniki to be his homeland, since the city gave him the opportunity to make all his media fantasies come true. From 1996 to 2018, while living in the North, he collaborated with the magazines KLIK, Men, Close Up, Selections of the Makedonia newspaper and COOL, as well as with the radio and television frequencies 88miso, ΕΤ-3, Antenna 97.5, Mega Channel, Republic 100.3, Imagine 89.7 and Fly 102.4. From 2003 until today, he made the wisest choice in his personal and professional life: he followed the Voice of Athens. Free press, free choice, Athens Voice. He writes articles every Thursday in the paper edition and daily on athensvoice.gr., while his exotic shows are hosted on 102.5 Athens Voice Radio, Monday to Friday from 12:00 to 14:00. His literary debut was in 2010 with the book Flaneur, published by Janos. Rock Star, his first novel, was published in 2019 by Metaichmio and he would never forget it: SOUL magazine is the best Greek pop culture magazine out of the countless he has worked with in his journalistic career. He studied Law and Communication, was a member of the Board of Directors. of the Megaro Musikis Thessaloniki and played music, over a thousand nights, on the turntables of famous bars, with an appeal to all genres except cry artful and incomprehensible trap. "Life knows and I trust it": it took him many years to find a motto, but from the night he saw the movie Cheap Cigarettes by his fellow Thracian and friend, Renos Charalambidis, he said "so be it"! He lives in Nea Smyrni until recently and declares himself to be extremely optimistic.