Being an Introduction

Death haunts the dance of the graces. The great author is a fiction, but after losing her father he becomes too real. Eleni Hajivassiliou stands between a ghost and the power to materialize its legacy. This sui generis assault upon the genres of storytelling presents community and family as an antidote to the poisons of a main character culture that threaten every human life. In two acts and an interlude, Roth engineers a fabrication that does what it says and says what it does. This insightful and challenging work demonstrates with understanding, will, and love what there is to look forward to for those who prefer a different kind of story than what they have come to expect from the attention economy.

"Words, words, words" -William Shakespeare

"Stately, plump" -James Joyce