Vrasidas Karalis

Two men, Robert and Vras, met in 1993 and formed a committed relationship until Robert's death from leukaemia in May 2022. This short book is a farewell letter to Robert, a long lamentation and a threnody, exploring the nature of their friendship, their own transformation over time, and finally the unexpected event of death. In the letter, Vras unfolds the...

A brilliantly written, autobiographically structured meditation on Australia's pre-eminent novelist Patrick White. Karalis' small volume reflects eloquently on a lifetime of reading, writing, and translating. On Patrick White's Dilemmas casts a sceptical eye on the grandiosity and hysteria of literary critics and critical theorists. It explores the highs and lows of the twentieth-century novel in a dazzling manner while dissecting...

The cinema of Theo Angelopoulos is celebrated as challenging the status quo. From the political films of the 1970s through to the more existential works of his later career, Vrasidis Karalis argues for a coherent and nuanced philosophy underpinning Angelopoulos' work. The political force of his films, including the classic The Travelling Players (1975), gave way to more essayistic works...