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Viața lui Kostas Venetis

“The Life of Kostas Venetis” (title translated by AI)

Octavian Soviany (born 1954)

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The adventures of a picaro with a split identity, an ascetic in the making converted to a religion of vice. As a child Kostas Venetis is an apprentice in a monastery in Greece at the end of the 19th century; then he undergoes a spectacular transformation. Demonically inverted, with the pride of a Nietzschean superman, he travels through Istanbul’s misery and fascination, a picturesque Bucharest, revolutionary Paris, splendid Vienna and melancholy Venice, moving from the underworld of taverns to noble circles. A story of initiation into Evil disguised as a thriller, where sodomy, violence, cabbalism and conspiracy myths mix.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

416 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Greece, Türkiye, Romania, France, Austria, Italy, late 19th century

First published

2011 by Cartea Românească

Author's age

57 when first published

ISBN

9789732328996 (original)