by Vassilis Alexakis · ISBN 9782213595306
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«La langue maternelle» is the novel by the writer Vassilis Alexakis, published by Fayard in 1995 (392 pages, in French).
Pavlos has been living in Paris for more than two decades when, for no clear reason, he travels to Athens without a return ticket. There he rediscovers the city, his roots and a country both young and old, and ends up obsessed with a question: the meaning of the letter E that hung at the entrance to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.
The novel won the Prix Médicis in 1995.
For readers of contemporary French fiction interested in identity, language and memory.
Vassilis Alexakis was a Greek-French writer and self-translator of numerous novels in Greek, his mother tongue, and French.
