{"product_id":"junkermann-s-swan-song-m-karagatsis","title":"Junkermann’s Swan Song - M. Karagatsis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJunkermann’s Swan Song\u003c\/em\u003e returns to Vasily Karlovich Junkermann at the end of his life. The swaggering adventurer of the first volume—Cossack guard, refugee, social climber, and self-styled conqueror of interwar Athens—now confronts the reckoning of age, disillusionment, and decline. Where Junkermann traced a frenetic rise shaped by appetite, ambition, and desire, this second volume turns inward, offering a darker, more introspective meditation on memory, loss, and mortality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOlder and increasingly isolated, Junkermann looks back on a life that now appears at once grand and grotesque, a farce animated by illusions of success, love, and masculine honour that have long since\u003cbr\u003ecurdled into bitterness and emptiness. As past passions and betrayals resurface, the novel assumes a distinctly Faustian cast, probing the psychic costs of a life spent in pursuit of power and pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTragic, surreal, and often darkly comic, Junkermann’s Swan Song weaves together psychological depth and Freudian undertones with Karagatsis’s sharp social insight and mordant humour. In its unflinching portrait of a man undone by the very myth that once sustained him, the novel becomes a haunting reflection on the chimera of success and the devastation that follows when its promise proves hollow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Like \u003c\/em\u003eThe Great Gatsby \u003cem\u003eand \u003c\/em\u003eTender is the Night\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003eJunkermann\u003cem\u003e should be read as one of the emblematic novels of the interbellum period, not just on a Greek, but on a global scale.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e― Gunnar De Boel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eJournal of Modern \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eGreek Studies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMay 2009\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJunkermann\u003cem\u003e is a thoroughly engrossing read… As a Greek offshoot of the western tradition of the novel, it deserves closer examination, celebration and, quite possibly a Hollywood movie, all of its own.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e― Dean Kalimniou\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNEOS KOSMOS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable id=\"product-attribute-specs-table\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003ePages\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Pages\"\u003e400\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003ePublication Date\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Publication Date\"\u003e2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003ePublisher\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Publisher\"\u003eΑιώρα \/ Aiora Press\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003eISBN\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"ISBN\"\u003e9786182410172\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003eBinding\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Binding\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"row\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003ctd data-th=\"Author\"\u003eM. Karagatsis, Patricia Felisa Barbeito (translator)\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Diavazo Greek Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57448554922366,"sku":"junkermann swan song","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0580\/7574\/2397\/files\/junkermanns-swan-song-m-karagatsis-7169325.jpg?v=1779423969","url":"https:\/\/diavazo.co.uk\/products\/junkermann-s-swan-song-m-karagatsis","provider":"Diavazo Greek Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}