The murderess : a social tale

Papadiamantēs, Alexandros, 1851-19112011

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From its first appearance in 1903 The Murderess has been regarded as Papadiamandis's finest work. Set on his native Greek island of Skiathos it tells the story of Hadoula, a widow with grown-up children, who has convinced herself that is is better that little girls should leave this life when young so that they and their parents should not suffer the trials that inevitably would be inflicted on them by an inequitable society. In the throes of this misguided compassion she finds herself set on a course she is unable to stop despite the promptings of her conscience and her awareness of the consequences. Papadiamandis charts this course and the events in her life that preceded it, and against a background of the island's verdant and untrodden places and the living presence of the Church he explores the particular quality of evil has of disguising itself as good, but without ever passing judgement on the murderess herself. This new translation of this classic work by one of Greece's most important writers, who by many is compared to Dostoyevski and Hardy, has been published to mark the centenary of his death.