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Exilic Colour

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August 2003, no. 253

Summer Visit: Three novellas by Antigone Kefala

Giramondo. $20 pb, 120 pp

The Island/L’île/To Nisi by Antigone Kefala

Owl Publishing, $24.95 pb, 181 pp

Exilic Colour

by
August 2003, no. 253

Readers who share Helen Nickas’s view that Antigone Kefala’s fiction forms ‘a continuous narrative which depicts and explores the various stages of an exilic journey’ may be pleased to find more instalments in her fourth book of fiction, Summer Visit. The first of the three novellas is an account of an unsatisfying marriage, told with a controlled detachment that makes its title, ‘Intimacy’, seem ironic. In contrast, the third, ‘Conversations with Mother’, contains a series of elegiac apostrophes of the deceased; the connections with Braila and other congruities with a figure familiar from previous writings again encourage an assumption of autobiography.

Stathis Gauntlett reviews ‘Summer Visit: Three novellas’ by Antigone Kefala and ‘The Island/L’île/To Nisi’ by Antigone Kefala

Summer Visit: Three novellas

by Antigone Kefala

Giramondo. $20 pb, 120 pp

The Island/L’île/To Nisi

by Antigone Kefala

Owl Publishing, $24.95 pb, 181 pp

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