Z: A Novel - 50th Anniversary Edition

Vassilis Vassilikos

Seven Stories Press

2017

416 páginas

13h 52m

ISBN-13: 9781609807139

A progressive parliamentary deputy is scheduled to appear at a political rally. Meanwhile, local political bosses plot his assassination. Thugs are recruited to disrupt the rally. Rumors begin to spread. But the forces already set in motion are irresistible. Z is the story of a crime, a time, a place, and people transformed by events.

Z was published in Greece in 1966, and banned there one year later. It is based on an actual political assassination in 1963 in Salonika. The victim was Gregory Lambrakis, a socialist legislator and outspoken critic of the government. But Lambrakis's killers could not have anticipated the public response. His funeral became a political event; by the time the cortege reached Athens, 400,000 people were following the coffin in silence. In the nation's capital, the letter Z suddenly appeared on walls, sidewalks, posters--everywhere. Z stands for the Greek verb zei, "he lives."

Resenhas (1)

3.5 (Bom)

diferentes perspectivas

o ponto forte do livro é tambem o seu fraco.

interessantíssimo a história contada de diferentes perspectivas, vozes e visões. mas tambem esse é o ponto fraco, alguns personagens simplesmente não eram tao interessantes quanto outros, várias vezes a leitura ficou maçante.

é um livro sobre uma ditadura fascista, naturalmente denso emocionalmente, o que é otimo. vários trechos me marcaram

gostei, mas poderia ter 100 páginas a menos pra eu gostar muito.