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Elias Petropoulos: A Presentation
Nov
by JOHN TAYLOR
JOURNAL OF THE HELLENIC DIASPORA
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Whether one is “for” or “against” Elias Petropoulos—as the question is often formulated in Greece—it must, in any case, be admitted that he is one contemporary writer who, more than most, has managed to get himself into, or found himself in, a great deal of trouble. “Trouble” indeed, for, over his thirty-year (and forty-book) writing career, Petropoulos has been imprisoned three times, sentenced to prison in absentia a fourth time, been involved in several administrative disputes and controversies and, as he has written recently, been arrested or harassed on many occasions by one or more of the Greek police forces as he was taking pictures or making sketches for his many albums of Greek folklore. Nor has this past year lacked its share of scandals d la Petropoulos.
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