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Wayward Memoir

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September 1997, no. 194

Mortal Divide: The autobiography of Yiorgos Alexandroglou by George Alexander

Brandl and Schlesinger $19.95pb, 192 pp

Wayward Memoir

by
September 1997, no. 194

Mortal Divide is an anti-oedipal odyssey, Joycean roman à clef, migrant memoir, and Orphic mini-epic. Nemerov’s self-reflexive Journal of a Fictive Life is one of its inspirations. George (Yiorgos) is a first-generation Greek translator working at the Multicultural Broadcasting Service. Victim of the media machine, he begins to hear and see things that aren’t ‘real’, including his spectral double Yiorgos Alexandroglou, and plunges videoleptically into dreams whenever he closes his eyes.

Adam Aitken reviews 'Mortal Divide: The autobiography of Yiorgos Alexandroglou' by George Alexander

Mortal Divide: The autobiography of Yiorgos Alexandroglou

by George Alexander

Brandl and Schlesinger $19.95pb, 192 pp

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