Symbolically powerful, incisively poetic, `Mission Box` is a Kafkaesque Odyssey of yearning and disillusionment, aspiration and despair, which placed Aris Alexandrou at the forefront of Greek fiction in our time. Alexandrou`s presence in contemporary Greek letters was strongly felt in his distinguished translations of poetry and fiction from Russian, French and English, in his powerful verse, and finally - in the capstone of his career - the remarkable novel, `Mission Box (Το kivotio, 1974)`. (. . .)

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