Dream on
Alexander Nehamas, 17 July 1997
Dinner with Persephone
by Patricia Storace.
Granta, 398 pp., £17.99, February 1997,1 86207 033 4 Show More
by Patricia Storace.
Granta, 398 pp., £17.99, February 1997,
“... Though one might think that consigning discourse to the world of dreams is to rob it of reality, Patricia Storace’s remarkable memoir of a year spent living in Athens and travelling around the Greek countryside should remove that idea. As powerless now as it was under the Romans, Greece is debating the proper mode in which to transmit its culture. And ... ”