Η εσπερίς του κυρίου Σουσαμάκη
Άγγελος Βλάχος, 1893
An Athenian clerk marries a rich bride with one eye fewer and fifteen years more, and plans a tea party. A comedy of dowries, vanity and domestic war.
Άγγελος Βλάχος
1838–1920
Άγγελος Βλάχος was a diplomat and professor who wrote this novella in archaising katharevousa, mocking the very purists he imitated — a joke aimed at Athens' linguistic battles of the 1890s.
Feels like humor, society and family.
A marriage described like an invoice, with every flaw itemised and priced.
Ὁ Κύριος Σουσαμάκης, ὑπάλληλος τοῦ γραφείου ὅπερ διευθύνει ὁ κύριος Παρδαλός, ἐνυμφεύθη πρό τινων μηνῶν, τῇ ἀγαθῇ συμπράξει τοῦ προϊσταμένου του, πλουσίαν τινα νύμφην ἐκ Πατρῶν, ἔχουσαν μὲν ἕνα ὀφθαλμὸν ὀλιγώτερον αὐτοῦ, ἀλλ’ εἰς ἀποζημίωσιν τοῦ ἐλλείποντος ὀφθαλμοῦ δεκαπέντε ἔτη ἡλικίας περισσότερα, καὶ εἰς ἀποζημίωσιν τῶν περισσευόντων δεκαπέντε ἐτῶν τριάκοντα πέντε χιλιάδας δραχμῶν προῖκα. Books by Άγγελος Βλάχος
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