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Written in 1978, when the “kamakia” (“harpoons”) phenomenon, young men who spent their summers offering erotic services to foreign tourists, was at its peak, the book captures these times with joyous humor and playful melancholy.
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Elegy of an era, satirical meta-ethography, portrait of a place, partial political imagination, and less erotic story, “Ta Kamakia” ( “Τα καμάκια”) balance between “conventional” prose, alternative history, journalism, diary and narration. Written in 1978, when the “kamakia” phenomenon, young men who spent their summers offering erotic services to foreign tourists, was at its peak, the book captures these times with joyous humor and playful melancholy. Men who leave the traditional professions chasing a “dream” of libertinism, young people without prospects who cross-eye to a life that does not contain them, the entire Greek province, who over-dizzy by the acquaintance with the new, western, liberated sexual manners, tries to find its step into a world that changes but without succeeding. A novel misunderstood in its time, which nowadays, beyond the pure joy of reading, offers a vivid image of a transitional period.
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Vassilis Vassilikos
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