This is the book we've been waiting for. Seven years later Twice Borna funny odyssey in Greece in the footsteps of an unknown father, Constantin Alexandrakis confronts the demon that has inhabited him since childhood, child abuse committed by a friend of his mother, a substitute father figure, “somewhere between 9 and 14 years old”. As often, everything was there; the facts were told openly in this first text published in 2017.
Two years later, the speeches of Adèle Haenel and Vanessa Springora opened the floodgates of testimonies and freed up listening around violence against children and adolescents. Having just become a father, the author takes the wave head on, once again assailed by his trauma.
As Neige Sinno, the author of sad tigerin a short and powerful preface, Hospitality to the Demon “is not a novel about a terrible story of an abused child”. What Constantin Alexandrakis dissects with heartbreaking sincerity is the realization that he, the former child victim, is a potential danger for his daughter and that he suffers from “impulse phobias”. An angle rarely addressed in recent Books on incest, with the exception of burn everythingnovel in verse by Lucille de Pesloüan (The City is Burning, 2024).
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