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A progressive parliamentary deputy is scheduled to appear at a political rally. Meanwhile, local political bosses plot his assassination. Thugs are recruited to disrupt the rally. Rumors begin to spread. But the forces already set in motion are irresistible. Z is the story of a crime, a time, a place, and people transformed by events.

Z was published in Greece in 1966, and banned there one year later. It is based on an actual political assassination in 1963 in Salonika. The victim was Gregory Lambrakis, a socialist legislator and outspoken critic of the government. But Lambrakis's killers could not have anticipated the public response. His funeral became a political event; by the time the cortege reached Athens, 400,000 people were following the coffin in silence. In the nation's capital, the letter Z suddenly appeared on walls, sidewalks, posters--everywhere. Z stands for the Greek verb zei, "he lives."

406 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1966

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Vassilis Vassilikos

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Vassilis Vassilikos (Greek: ) was a prolific Greek writer and diplomat. A native of the northern Greek island of Thassos, Vassilikos grew up in Salonika, graduating from law school there before moving to Athens to work as a journalist. Due to his political activities, he was forced into exile following the 1967 military coup, where he spent the next seven years.

Between 1981 and 1984 Vassilikos served as general manager of the Greek state television channel ET1. Since 1996, he has served as Greece's ambassador to UNESCO.

As an author, Vassilikos has been highly prolific and widely-translated. He has published more than 100 books, including novels, plays and poetry. His best known work is the political novel Z (1967) (English language ISBN 0-394-72990-0 or ISBN 0-941423-50-6), which has been translated into thirty-two languages and was the basis of the award-winning film Z directed by Costa-Gavras (with music by Mikis Theodorakis).

In 2008, Vassilikos was among to 41 other personalities of Greece that condemned the action of the withdrawal of Ersi Sotiropoulos's book Zigzag Through the Bitter-Orange Trees from the Greek school libraries, after the appeal of insurance measures by Konstantinos Plevris against to the Ministry of National Education of Greece for this issue. In 2001, Petros Tatoulis had asked the withdrawal of this specific book and he characterized this as pornographic due to the provocative sexual scenes that it contains

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螠喂伪 蟽蠀渭蟺伪纬萎蟼 未蠈蟽畏 喂蟽蟿慰蟻喂魏慰蠉 位蠀蟻喂蟽渭慰蠉 伪蟺蠈 蟿慰谓 螔伪蟽委位畏 螔伪蟽喂位喂魏蠈, 蟽蟿畏谓 蔚尉喂蟽蟿蠈蟻畏蟽畏 蟿慰蠀 蠂蟻慰谓喂魏慰蠉 蟿畏蟼 未慰位慰蠁慰谓委伪蟼 螞伪渭蟺蟻维魏畏 伪蟺蠈 蟿慰 蟺伪谓蟿伪蠂慰蠉 蟺伪蟻蠈谓 蟺伪蟻伪魏蟻维蟿慰蟼 蟿畏蟼 渭蔚蟿伪蟺慰位蔚渭喂魏萎蟼 蟺蔚蟻喂蠈未慰蠀.
螣喂 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿萎蟻蔚蟼 慰位慰味蠋谓蟿伪谓慰喂, 位蔚蟼 魏伪喂 蟿慰蠀蟼 蠂伪喂蟻苇蟿畏蟽蔚蟼 蟺蟻慰 5 位蔚蟺蟿蠋谓 未喂伪 蠂蔚喂蟻伪蠄委伪蟼, 畏 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 蟻苇蔚喂 伪蟺蟻蠈蟽魏慰蟺蟿伪, 畏 伪位位伪纬萎 伪蟺蠈 喂未喂蠈位蔚魏蟿慰 蟽蔚 喂未喂蠈位蔚魏蟿慰 魏维胃蔚 蠁慰蟻维 蟿慰谓委味蔚喂 蟿喂蟼 未喂伪蠁慰蟻苇蟼, 蟽蟿畏 渭蠈蟻蠁蠅蟽畏, 蟽蟿畏谓 魏慰喂谓蠅谓喂魏萎 胃苇蟽畏, 伪魏蠈渭伪 魏伪喂 蟽蟿喂蟼 蟺蟻慰胃苇蟽蔚喂蟼鈭� 伪蟺慰位伪蠀蟽蟿喂魏苇蟼 魏伪胃伪蟻蔚蠉慰蠀蟽蔚蟼 魏伪喂 蔚位位畏谓喂魏慰蠉蟻蔚蟼 蟿蠅谓 蟽慰位慰喂魏喂蟽渭蠋谓 蟽蠀谓蟿伪喂蟻喂维味慰蠀谓 渭蔚 渭伪位位喂伪蟻苇蟼 未畏渭慰蟿喂魏苇蟼.

螒魏蠈渭畏 魏伪喂 蟿伪 "蔚蟽蠅蟿蔚蟻喂魏维" 魏慰渭渭维蟿喂伪, 慰喂 伪谓伪蟽蟿慰蠂伪蟽渭慰委 魏伪喂 慰喂 位蠀蟻喂魏蠈蟿蔚蟻慰喂 蟿蠅谓 渭蔚位伪纬蠂慰位喂魏蠋谓 蟽蠀位位慰纬喂蟽渭蠋谓 蟺慰蠀 伪蟺慰未委未慰谓蟿伪喂 蟽蟿伪 蟺蟻蠈蟽蠅蟺伪 蟿慰蠀 未蟻维渭伪蟿慰蟼 (伪位位维 魏伪喂 伪蠀蟿维 蟿慰蠀 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪) 未蔚谓 魏慰蠀蟻维味慰蠀谓.

螒谓 蟺蟻慰蟽苇胃蔚蟿伪 魏维蟿喂 胃伪 萎蟿伪谓... 位委纬慰 蟺蔚蟻喂蟽蟽蠈蟿蔚蟻慰蟼 螖蔚位伪蟺蠈蟻蟿伪蟼.
(危蟿畏 未委魏畏 蟺慰蠀 苇纬喂谓蔚 蟿慰 1966 慰 蔚喂蟽伪纬纬蔚位苇伪蟼 螤伪蠉位慰蟼 螖蔚位伪蟺蠈蟻蟿伪蟼 蟿蠈谓喂蟽蔚: 芦危萎渭蔚蟻伪, 蔚未蠋, 苇谓伪 蟽蠉渭蠁蠀蟻渭伪 魏位蔚蠁蟿蠋谓, 尾喂伪蟽蟿蠋谓, 未蠅蟽喂位蠈纬蠅谓 魏伪喂 魏维胃蔚 蔚委未慰蠀蟼 魏伪魏慰蟺慰喂蠋谓, 蔚渭蠁伪谓委味蔚蟿伪喂 蟺蟻慰蟼 蔚胃谓慰魏伪蟺畏位委伪 魏伪喂 伪谓慰渭慰位慰纬萎蟿蠅蟼 喂未喂慰蟿蔚位蔚委蟼 蟽魏慰蟺慰蠉蟼, 蠅蟼 蟺蟻慰蟽蟿维蟿畏蟼 魏慰喂谓蠅谓喂魏蠋谓 魏伪胃蔚蟽蟿蠋蟿蠅谓, 蠅蟼 蠁蠉位伪魏伪蟼 喂蔚蟻蠋谓 魏伪喂 慰蟽委蠅谓 魏伪喂 蠅蟼 螝苇蟻尾蔚蟻慰蟼 蟿慰蠀 谓蠈渭慰蠀 魏伪喂 蟿畏蟼 蟿维尉畏蟼. 韦喂 维位位慰 苇蟺蟻蔚蟺蔚 谓伪 蟺蔚蟻喂渭苇谓蔚喂 魏伪谓蔚委蟼 伪蟺 伪蠀蟿蠈 蟺位畏谓 蟿慰蠀 蠈蟿喂 胃伪 蔚尉蔚位喂蟽蟽蠈蟿伪谓 蟽蔚 魏伪魏慰萎胃畏 谓蔚慰蟺位伪蟽委伪 蟿畏蟼 魏慰喂谓蠅谓委伪蟼;禄)

螆尉喂 未蔚魏伪蔚蟿委蔚蟼 渭蔚蟿维 蟿畏 未慰位慰蠁慰谓委伪 螞伪渭蟺蟻维魏畏 (蟿畏蟼 慰蟺慰委伪蟼 慰喂 蟺蔚蟻喂纬蟻伪蠁蠈渭蔚谓蔚蟼 渭蔚胃慰未蔚蠉蟽蔚喂蟼 胃蠀渭委味慰蠀谓 蟿蠈蟽慰 蟺慰位蠉 蟿畏谓 蔚谓慰蟻蠂萎蟽蟿蟻蠅蟽畏 -蟺伪蟻维 蟿伪 50 蠂蟻蠈谓喂伪 未喂伪蠁慰蟻维- 蟿畏蟼 未慰位慰蠁慰谓委伪蟼 蟿慰蠀 螤伪蠉位慰蠀 桅蠉蟽蟽伪 伪蟺蠈 蟿慰 伪谓蠋渭伪位慰 渭蠈蟻蠁蠅渭伪 蟿畏蟼 围蟻蠀蟽萎蟼 螒蠀纬萎蟼, 伪蠀蟿慰谓慰渭畏渭苇谓慰 未蔚魏伪谓委魏喂 魏喂 伪蠀蟿萎, 蟽魏蠀位委 蟺慰蠀 纬蠉蟻蔚蠄蔚 谓伪 未伪纬魏蠋蟽蔚喂 蟺蔚蟻喂蟽蟽蠈蟿蔚蟻慰 伪蟺' 蠈蟽慰 蟿慰蠀 蔚蟺苇蟿蟻蔚蟺伪谓 魏伪喂 渭蠈谓慰谓 蟿蠈蟿蔚 蟽蠁委蠂蟿畏魏蔚 蟿慰 位慰蠀蟻委) 蔚委谓伪喂 蟺苇蟻伪 伪蟺蠈 伪蟺慰位伪蠀蟽蟿喂魏蠈 蟽蟿畏谓 伪谓维纬谓蠅蟽畏 魏伪喂 蠂蟻萎蟽喂渭慰: 纬喂伪蟿委 纬蔚谓喂苇蟼 蟺慰蠀 渭蔚纬维位蠅蟽伪谓 渭苇蟽伪 蟽蔚 "伪蟺慰魏伪胃伪蟻渭苇谓畏" 未畏渭慰魏蟻伪蟿委伪 (谓伪喂, 渭蔚 蟿伪 蠈蟺慰喂伪 蟽蟿蟻伪尾维 蟿畏蟼), 未蔚谓 苇蠂慰蠀谓 蔚喂魏蠈谓伪 蟿畏蟼 未蠉谓伪渭畏蟼 魏伪喂 蟿畏蟼 尾委伪蟼 蟺慰蠀 维蟽魏畏蟽伪谓 蟿伪 蠂蠀未伪委伪 魏苇谓蟿蟻伪 伪蟺慰蟽蟿伪胃蔚蟻慰蟺慰委畏蟽畏蟼 魏伪喂 喂未喂慰蟺慰委畏蟽畏蟼 蟿畏蟼 蔚尉慰蠀蟽委伪蟼 蟺慰蠀 蔚尉苇蠁蟻伪味蔚 渭蔚蟻委未伪 蟿蠅谓 谓喂魏畏蟿蠋谓 蟿慰蠀 蔚渭蠁蠀位委慰蠀, 魏萎谓蟽慰蟻蔚蟼 蟿畏蟼 蟽蠂蔚未蠈谓 胃蔚蟽渭慰胃蔚蟿畏渭苇谓畏蟼 伪谓蠅渭伪位委伪蟼, 蟿伪纬慰委 蟿畏蟼 谓慰渭喂渭蠈蟿畏蟿伪蟼 渭蔚 蟿慰 蠄蔚蠀未苇蟼 蔚胃谓喂魏慰蠁蟻慰蟽蠀谓蠈渭蔚蟿蟻慰 伪谓维 蠂蔚委蟻伪蟼, 蟽蠀蠂谓维 蟺蟻蠋畏谓 蟽蠀谓蔚蟻纬维蟿蔚蟼 蟿蠅谓 螕蔚蟻渭伪谓蠋谓 蔚蟺委 魏伪蟿慰蠂萎蟼, 未慰蟽委位慰纬慰喂, 苇谓慰蠂慰喂 蔚蟽蠂维蟿畏蟼 蟺蟻慰未慰蟽委伪蟼 蟽蔚 蟻蠈位慰 蟿喂渭畏蟿萎 蟿蠅谓 畏蟿蟿畏渭苇谓蠅谓 蟿慰蠀 '49 伪位位维 魏伪喂 魏维胃蔚 蟺蟻慰慰未蔚蠀蟿喂魏萎蟼 萎 慰蠀蟽喂伪蟽蟿喂魏维 未畏渭慰魏蟻伪蟿喂魏萎蟼 蠁蠅谓萎蟼. 螞伪蠈蟼 蠂蠅蟻委蟼 渭谓萎渭畏, 蔚委谓伪喂 魏伪蟿伪未喂魏伪蟽渭苇谓慰蟼 谓伪 尉伪谓伪味萎蟽蔚喂, 伪谓 蠈蠂喂 蟿伪 委未喂伪, 蠂蔚喂蟻蠈蟿蔚蟻伪.
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281 reviews91 followers
February 3, 2017
韦慰 尉伪谓伪未喂维尾伪蟽伪, 魏慰谓蟿维 30 蠂蟻蠈谓喂伪 渭蔚蟿维 蟿畏谓 蟺蟻蠋蟿畏 蠁慰蟻维, 渭蔚 维位位伪 渭维蟿喂伪, 维位位蔚蟼 纬谓蠋蟽蔚喂蟼.
螚 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 蔚委谓伪喂 纬谓蠅蟽蟿萎, 伪位畏胃喂谓萎 魏伪喂 蟽蠀纬魏位慰谓喂蟽蟿喂魏萎 伪蟺蠈 渭蠈谓畏 蟿畏蟼. 螚 纬蟻伪蠁萎 蟿慰蠀 螔伪蟽喂位喂魏慰蠉 蔚尉伪喂蟻蔚蟿喂魏萎, 未蠀谓伪蟿萎 魏伪喂 尉蔚魏维胃伪蟻畏, 蠂蠅蟻委蟼 蟺蔚蟻喂蟿蟿慰蠉蟼 "蠁喂蠈纬魏慰蠀蟼". 螆谓伪 伪蟺蠈 蟿伪 魏伪位蠉蟿蔚蟻伪 苇蟻纬伪 蟿畏蟼 谓蔚慰蔚位位畏谓喂魏萎蟼 位慰纬慰蟿蔚蠂谓委伪蟼, 蟿慰 '蠂蔚喂 伪蟺慰未蔚委尉蔚喂 慰 蠂蟻蠈谓慰蟼 苇蟿蟽喂 魏喂 伪位位喂蠋蟼.
螡伪 蟽畏渭蔚喂蠋蟽蠅 蟺蠅蟼 畏 魏伪喂谓慰蠉蟻喂伪 苇魏未慰蟽畏 蟿蠅谓 蔚魏未蠈蟽蔚蠅谓 Gutenberg 蔚委谓伪喂 蟺蟻慰蟽蔚纬渭苇谓畏, 魏伪喂 蟿慰 蔚蟺委渭蔚蟿蟻慰 蟿畏蟼 螕. 桅伪蟻委谓慰蠀-螠伪位伪渭伪蟿维蟻畏 未喂伪蠁蠅蟿喂蟽蟿喂魏蠈.
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76 reviews
March 9, 2018
螒蠁萎纬畏蟽畏 蟻苇慰蠀蟽伪, 味蠅谓蟿伪谓萎, 渭蔚 苇谓蟿慰谓慰 蟻蠀胃渭蠈. 韦伪 渭蠈谓伪 蟽畏渭蔚委伪 蟺慰蠀 渭蔚 蠂维位伪蟽伪谓 萎蟿伪谓 伪蠀蟿维 蟺慰蠀 蟺蔚蟻喂纬蟻维蠁蔚蟿伪喂 畏 未喂伪未蟻慰渭萎 蟿畏蟼 蠄蠀蠂萎蟼 魏伪喂 蟿伪 蠂蠅蟻委伪 蟺慰蠀 畏 蟽蠉味蠀纬慰蟼 魏伪喂 魏伪喂 慰 螤畏蟻慰蠀蠂维蟼 伪蟺蔚蠀胃蠉谓慰谓蟿伪喂 蟽蔚 尾' 蟺蟻蠈蟽蠅蟺慰 蟽蟿慰谓 蔚魏位喂蟺蠈谓蟿伪. 螠维位位慰谓 萎蟿伪谓 蟺喂慰 位蠀蟻喂魏维 魏伪喂 蟽蠀谓伪喂蟽胃畏渭伪蟿喂魏维 伪蟺蠈 蠈蟽慰 胃伪 萎胃蔚位伪 萎 伪蟺' 蠈蟽慰 蟿伪喂蟻喂维味蔚喂 蟽蟿畏谓 蟺慰喂蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蟿畏蟼 纬蔚谓喂魏蠈蟿蔚蟻畏蟼 伪蠁畏纬畏渭伪蟿喂魏萎蟼 未慰渭萎蟼 蟺慰蠀 蟽蠀纬魏蟻慰蟿蔚委蟿伪喂 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏谓 伪蟻蠂萎 蟿慰蠀 苇蟻纬慰蠀.
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542 reviews
June 10, 2011
Perhaps this is one book where the material is subversive enough that I understand why there are elements in this world who would like to see this banned. And for that reason, also for the reason that I came across this novel by virtue of seeing the list of 1000 novels that people should read in their lifetime by The Guardian, I decided to pick this up from the library.

So what is this about?

This novel presents a rather thinly fictionalized account of the assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis, who was murdered by elements of the Greek junta in 1963. You could read about the real murder online, but let me write how the novel presents it.

The book begins with an agricultural meeting about pollination. This is held by right-wing elements. After that, the events about a rally that will be held by the left-wing population are narrated, where Z is supposed to give a speech. At the same time, the reader is made aware that elements of the police force are hiring thugs and hoodlums to murder Z by bludgeoning him with a club. All the events leading to Z's death is narrated using different perspectives and different narrators in Part 1, entitled An Evening in May, from 7:30 to 10:30.

Part 2 is a short one, consisting of one chapter, entitled A Train Whistles in the Night. This narrates the funeral of Z, as a train transports his coffin to his final resting place.

After the Earthquake is Part 3, consisting of the investigation that follows. There are reporters and investigators from both sides, and we see how the stories of the police force don't add up together, and people are living in fear because the police force basically controls everyone else's livelihood.

Parts 4 and 5 (Apologias and One Year Later) shows the end result: the police force are put to trial, and yet justice is still not served. The book's ending is pretty downbeat, and yet realistic in my opinion. After all, this isn't a fairy tale, and politics isn't a fantasy that would end in something along the lines of happily ever after.

I could understand why this book would be banned in Greece, and why Vassilikos would be forced to go to exile. After all, he is portraying the right-wing military junta that reigned in his country during the 60s and 70s in a negative light. Thus, in my point of view, this book adds to the plenty of books that portray a dystopian environment, somewhere where everything is controlled, including how we think. Truths are all relative, people twist news reports so that everything that gets published is favorable for them, and people buy other people so that they wouldn't testify against them. Unfortunately, for this dystopia, it wasn't set in the future. It was set in Greece some 50 years ago.

I suppose what I find awesome about this book is less about the literary aspects of it but more about the content. If my political beliefs were to be categorized, I'd probably be less of a match with the right-wing political ideologies than with the left-wing folks. The thing this book is very good in portraying is the fact that there is a small ruling class, a military junta, where all the riches go, and the rest are poor and illiterate, surviving on a few drachma a day. This scenario just makes Communism so lucrative, because it (ideally) equalizes the wealth. Granted, I ultimately believe that man is inherently selfish and therefore this equalization of wealth won't happen, but I do acknowledge why Communism would be the first, albeit radical reaction against corruption.

So, would I recommend this? Definitely. It's hard to get a copy, I searched online bookstores and it seems that it hasn't been in print lately. Good thing my library had a copy of the 1968 English translation printing. I would give this 4.5 out of 5 stars.
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970 reviews115 followers
November 18, 2018
螘谓伪 尾喂尾位委慰 蟿慰 慰蟺慰委慰 未喂伪蠁畏渭委蟽蟿畏魏蔚 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏谓 慰渭蠋谓蠀渭畏 魏喂谓畏渭伪蟿慰纬蟻伪蠁喂魏萎 蟿伪喂谓委伪. 螔喂尾位委慰 谓蟿慰魏慰蠀渭苇谓蟿慰 苇蠂蔚喂 蟺位苇慰谓 尾维位蔚喂 蟿畏 未喂魏萎 蟿慰蠀 蟽蠁蟻伪纬委未伪 蟽蟿畏谓 蟽蠉纬蠂蟻慰谓畏 蔚位位畏谓喂魏萎 尾喂尾位喂慰纬蟻伪蠁委伪
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499 reviews24 followers
February 1, 2018
-(Toplumlarda) Ortak sa臒duyunun 枚tesi bir karanl谋k. Ne bir 艧izofrenin ani 谋艧谋k ge莽i艧lerinin ne de 艧im艧eklerin da臒谋tamayaca臒谋 kadar yo臒un bir karanl谋k.

-...denize varmak i莽in bir kanala girmesi gerekiyordu. Bunca su ortada kalmaz! Bunca verimli kaynak kimse onu de臒erlendirmenin bir yolunu bulamad谋 diye kurumaz!

-Di臒erlerine inand谋臒谋n zaman hayat ne kadar da g眉zeldir. ...Sen bana el ele tutu艧al谋m dedi臒inde hayat ne g眉zeldir.

-Ruhu paslanmam谋艧 bir insan i莽in A艦K her zaman a艧kt谋r. A艧k her bir y眉z眉n, her bir 莽ift parlak g枚z眉n ard谋nda hep ayn谋 kal谋r. A艧k a臒z谋 dili kuruyan birinin suya duydu臒u 艧iddetli istektir, bizi a艧an 艧eylere kar艧谋 duyulan 艧iddetli arzudur. Sesimin i莽indeki sesindir. 陌ki ses... Sen ve ben olmadan sen ve ben olmakt谋r. Tarih 枚ncesi 莽a臒lardan gelme trompet seslerinin ritmini tekrarlamak; kendinden g眉ne艧in varl谋臒谋ndan emin oldu臒u kadar emin bir eylemdir a艧k.

-G枚zleri, kocaman g枚zleri, 眉zerine 莽ivilenmi艧, m谋knat谋s gibi 莽ekici, 眉zerinde hi莽 denize a莽谋lmam谋艧 ya da 莽ok a莽谋lm谋艧 denizcilerin gerginli臒iyle dolu, 谋艧谋k sa莽an, d眉nyevi, i莽indeki bir titre艧tirdi臒i zaman d眉nyaya ba臒lanan bir teli titreten g枚zler...

-...canl谋l谋臒谋n谋n i莽indeki sonsuz 枚l眉, beyazl谋臒谋n谋n i莽indeki sonsuz esmer. Ve ellerindeki toprak tad谋.

-T眉m 莽ok g眉莽l眉 insanlar gibi tek bildi臒i ok艧amakt谋.

-Ne yaz谋k asla bir d眉艧眉ncenin 眉zerinde bir araya gelmenin bilince varmadan deri h眉creleri gibi 枚l眉p gidenlere.

-Ya艧am her an 枚lmeye haz谋r oldu臒unda g眉zel.

-Hayat谋n ve do臒ru d眉艧眉ncelerin g眉zel oldu臒unu s枚ylemek i莽in eri艧tin bu bilgeli臒e.
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螒谓 魏伪喂 蟽蟿喂蟼 蟿蔚位蔚蠀蟿伪委蔚蟼 150 蟽蔚位委未蔚蟼 渭慰蠀 蠁维谓畏魏蔚 魏维蟺蠅蟼 尾伪蟻蔚蟿蠈, 未蔚谓 蟿慰 胃蔚蠋蟻畏蟽伪 渭蔚喂慰谓苇魏蟿畏渭伪 纬喂伪蟿委 未蔚谓 蔚委谓伪喂 渭蠀胃喂蟽蟿蠈蟻畏渭伪 伪位位维 芦渭畏-渭蠀胃喂蟽蟿慰蟻畏渭伪蟿喂魏蠈 渭蠀胃喂蟽蟿蠈蟻畏渭伪禄 魏伪喂 慰喂 伪蟺慰位慰纬委蔚蟼 蟺慰蠀 蟺蔚蟻喂苇蠂蔚喂 蟽蟿慰 蟿苇位慰蟼 萎蟿伪谓 伪蟺伪蟻伪委蟿畏蟿蔚蟼. 螠慰蠀 维蟻蔚蟽蔚 伪蟻魏蔚蟿维 纬喂伪蟿委 蟺蟻蠋蟿伪 伪蟺' 蠈位伪 苇渭伪胃伪 蟺慰位位维 纬喂伪 蟿畏谓 未慰位慰蠁慰谓委伪 蟿慰蠀 螞伪渭蟺蟻维魏畏 魏伪喂 纬喂伪蟿委 畏 纬蟻伪蠁萎 蟿慰蠀 螔伪蟽喂位喂魏慰蠉 蔚委谓伪喂 蔚尉伪委蟻蔚蟿畏, 蔚喂未喂魏维 蟽蟿慰 未蔚蠉蟿蔚蟻慰 渭苇蟻慰蟼 蟿慰蠀 尾喂尾位委慰蠀 蠈蟺慰蠀 蟺蔚蟻喂纬蟻维蠁蔚蟿伪喂 蟿慰 蟿伪尉委未喂 蟿畏蟼 蟽慰蟻慰蠉 蟿慰蠀 螞伪渭蟺蟻维魏畏 魏伪喂 蟿慰 蟺伪蟻维位位畏位慰 蟿伪尉委未喂 蟿畏蟼 蠄蠀蠂萎蟼 蟿慰蠀 苇尉蠅 伪蟺蠈 蟿慰 蟿蟻伪委谓慰. 螒谓 魏伪喂 魏维蟺蠅蟼 魏慰蠀蟻伪蟽蟿喂魏蠈, 蟿慰 蟺蟻慰蟿蔚委谓蠅 蠅蟼 苇谓伪 蟺慰位蠉 魏伪位蠈 芦未畏渭慰蟽喂慰纬蟻伪蠁喂魏蠈禄 尾喂尾位委慰 魏伪喂 蠅蟼 苇谓伪 伪尉喂蠈位慰纬慰 渭蠀胃喂蟽蟿蠈蟻畏渭伪.
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November 11, 2022
An interesting political novel about truth and corruption. Set mainly in Salonika, Greece, in 1963. A left wing man, 鈥榋鈥�, a doctor, is killed. The killing was planned by a secret fascist organisation. An examining magistrate is urged to close the case quickly, but he refuses, slowly uncovering the unsavoury details of a conspiracy.

This book was first published in 1966.
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September 30, 2012
Brilliant novel about the murder of a leftist parliamentary deputy in early 1960s Salonika--- a political killing in a Greece on the edge of the coup that brought the Colonels to power. Vassilikos' "Z" is also the source for Costa-Gavras' film of the same name--- one of the great political thrillers of the 20th century. The novel is complex, and told through multiple viewpoints and conflicting voices, with the streets of Salonika and Athens as players as important as army officers, bureaucrats, and hired thugs. A fine, fine political novel, and one worth reading as Greece seems to be fracturing again. Very much worth finding and reading.
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January 26, 2023
螠蔚位苇蟿畏蟽蔚 蟿伪 未蔚未慰渭苇谓伪 蟽蔚 尾维胃慰蟼, 蔚委谓伪喂 渭喂伪 魏伪蟿伪纬蟻伪蠁萎 谓蟿慰魏慰蠀渭苇谓蟿慰 蠂蟻萎蟽喂渭畏 蟺慰蠀 位苇蔚喂 蟺慰位位蔚蟼 伪位畏胃蔚喂蔚蟼 , 伪蟺慰魏伪位蠉蟺蟿蔚喂 蟿蟻蠈蟺慰蠀蟼 未蟻维蟽畏蟼 , 蟺伪蟻维未蟻伪蟽畏蟼 魏伪喂 蟽蠀纬魏维位蠀蠄畏蟼 . 螛蔚蠅蟻蠋 蠈蟿喂 蟺蟻伪纬渭伪蟿喂魏维 蟿伪 苇未蠅蟽蔚 蠈位伪 魏伪蟿维 蟿畏谓 纬蟻伪蠁萎 伪蠀蟿慰蠉 蟿慰蠀 尾喂尾位委慰蠀 魏伪喂 渭伪蟻蔚蟽蔚喂 蟺慰位蠉 畏 伪蟺慰蟿蠉蟺蠅蟽畏 蟿慰蠀 螞伪渭蟺蟻伪魏畏 . 螛伪 萎蟿伪谓 蔚谓未喂伪蠁苇蟻慰谓 尾蔚尾伪喂伪 谓伪 渭伪胃伪委谓伪渭蔚 蟿喂 魏维谓慰蠀谓 蟽蟿慰 蟽畏渭蔚蟻伪 魏维蟺慰喂伪 伪蟺蠈 蟿伪 蟺蟻蠈蟽蠅蟺伪 伪蠀蟿萎蟼 蟿畏蟼 喂蟽蟿慰蟻委伪蟼 . 螤慰蟽蠈 魏慰谓蟿伪 魏伪喂 蟺慰蟽蠈 渭伪魏蟻蠀伪 蔚委谓伪喂 畏 伪蟻喂蟽蟿蔚蟻伪 蟿慰蠀 蟿慰蟿蔚 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏谓 味蠅萎 蟽畏渭蔚蟻伪 ;; 螤慰蟽蠈 苇蠂慰蠀谓 伪位位维尉蔚喂 蟿伪 蟺蟻伪纬渭伪蟿伪 魏伪喂 未慰位慰蠁慰谓委蔚蟼 纬委谓慰谓蟿伪喂 魏伪喂 蟽蟿慰 蟽畏渭蔚蟻伪 伪蟺蠈 蟿慰 蟺伪蟻伪魏蟻维蟿慰蟼 ;
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January 11, 2024
Audiorrese帽a detallada en mi podcast Gabinete de Curiosidades en el programa "Mis diez mejores novelas de 2023:

1001 Libros que hay que leer antes de morir: N.潞 189 de 1001

Este a帽o el periodo electoral ha coincidido con el verano. Es decir, si a la mala leche que produce la pol铆tica le a帽ades la que produce el sol abrasador, las camisas empapadas de sudor y el ruido de los perros y los coches que entra por las ventanas siempre abiertas, el fermento es un coctel molotov bien empapado en gasolina y ansioso por recibir la chispa que lo active. Si encima le茅is Z, la magistral novela pol铆tica de Vassilikos, vais a saber perfectamente d贸nde lanzar el proyectil flam铆gero. O a qui茅n.

Abstenerse c铆nicos, descre铆dos, fatalistas, depresivos o desencantados. Esta novela es puro veneno.
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Author听184 books553 followers
April 4, 2025
胁芯蟹胁褉邪褖邪械屑褋褟 泻 屑械褋褌薪芯泄 泻谢邪褋褋懈泻械, 锌芯褉邪. 袙邪褋懈谢懈褋 袙邪褋懈谢懈泻芯褋 薪械 锌褉芯褋褌芯 谐褉械褔械褋泻懈泄 锌懈褋邪褌械谢褜, 邪 褎褉邪泻懈泄褋泻芯-屑邪泻械写芯薪褋泻懈泄, 褋芯胁褋械屑 薪邪褕 蟹写械褕薪懈泄: 褉芯写懈谢褋褟 胁 袣邪胁邪谢械, 褉芯写懈褌械谢懈 褋 孝邪褋芯褋邪, 褍褔懈谢褋褟 胁 小邪谢芯薪懈泻械. 懈蟹胁械褋褌械薪 胁 锌械褉胁褍褞 芯褔械褉械写褜 褝褌懈屑 褉芯屑邪薪芯屑, 泻芯褌芯褉褘泄 胁 褋胁芯械 胁褉械屑褟 褝泻褉邪薪懈蟹懈褉芯胁邪谢 袣芯褋褌邪-袚邪胁褉邪褋, 锌褉懈褔械屑 褌邪泻, 褔褌芯 小邪谢芯薪懈泻邪 胁 薪械屑 锌芯褏芯卸邪 薪邪 薪邪褋褌芯褟褖褍褞, 褏芯褌褟 褋薪懈屑邪谢邪褋褜 薪械 褌褍褌. 褔懈褌邪褟 褉芯屑邪薪, 褋褌邪薪芯胁懈褌褋褟 锌芯薪褟褌薪芯, 写芯 褔械谐芯 胁芯芯斜褖械 褏芯褉芯褕邪 斜褘谢邪 褌邪 褝泻褉邪薪懈蟹邪褑懈褟. 锌邪屑褟褌薪懈泻 袥邪屑斜褉邪泻懈褋褍 褉械邪谢褜薪芯 褋褍褖械褋褌胁褍械褌, 芯薪 泻褉邪褋懈胁褘泄, 褝褌芯 屑械褋褌芯 锌褉懈褌褟卸械薪懈褟 胁褋械褏 锌褉邪胁懈谢褜薪褘褏 锌褉芯褌械褋褌邪薪褌芯胁 胁 谐芯褉芯写械. 褌邪屑, 胁 褔邪褋褌薪芯褋褌懈, 斜褘谢 屑械屑芯褉懈邪谢 袧邪胁邪谢褜薪芯屑褍 锌芯褋谢械 械谐芯 褍斜懈泄褋褌胁邪.

褋械泄褔邪褋, 泻邪泻 褝褌芯 薪懈 锌械褔邪谢褜薪芯 懈 薪懈 褋褌褉邪薪薪芯, 褌邪泻芯泄 褉芯屑邪薪 - 芯 褋芯胁褉械屑械薪薪芯屑 屑褍褔械薪懈泻械 蟹邪 锌褉邪胁芯械 (薪械 胁 褋屑褘褋谢械 锌芯谢懈褌懈褔械褋泻芯泄 褋褌芯褉芯薪褘) 写械谢芯 - 胁薪芯胁褜 蟹胁褍褔懈褌 芯褋褌褉芯 懈 邪泻褌褍邪谢褜薪芯:

The dead do not know how history is made. They have fed it with their blood; what comes after, they never learn. They are unaware of their sacrifice and this makes them still more beautiful. The early Christians knew why they were being sacrificed; they went to conscious martyrdoms. But in our day why should anyone talk of being sacrificed when what he believes is simply common sense鈥攋ust common sense? Who ever said that justice and injustice should go hand in hand? Poverty and wealth? Peace and war? Nonetheless, though no one has ever said it, many people鈥攁 great many people鈥攕eem to uphold it every day in their words and actions.

芯褌薪芯褕械薪懈械 泻 袟懈 胁 褉芯屑邪薪械 - 薪邪褌褍褉邪谢褜薪芯 泻邪泻 泻 屑械褋褋懈懈, 褋 褝褌懈屑 褌芯 谢懈 谐褉械褔械褋泻懈屑, 褌芯 谢懈 斜邪谢泻邪薪褋泻懈屑 薪邪写褉褘胁芯屑, 褔褌芯 屑械褋褌邪屑懈 屑芯卸械褌 懈 锌芯泻芯褉芯斜懈褌褜. 薪芯 卸懈蟹薪褜 屑懈泻褉芯斜懈芯褌褘 小邪谢芯薪懈泻懈 胁褘胁械写械薪邪 锌褉械泻褉邪褋薪芯: 薪邪褔懈薪邪械褕褜 胁芯芯斜褖械 谢褍褔褕械 锌芯薪懈屑邪褌褜 褝褌芯褌 褌.薪. 薪邪褉芯写, 邪 褌邪泻卸械 褝褌芯褌 褌.薪. 褉邪斜芯褔懈泄 泻谢邪褋褋. 褉芯屑邪薪 屑械卸 褌械屑 谢褞斜芯锌褘褌薪芯 褋泻芯薪褋褌褉褍懈褉芯胁邪薪 (懈 胁 褝泻褉邪薪懈蟹邪褑懈懈 褝褌芯 褋芯褏褉邪薪械薪芯) - 泻邪泻 谐褉芯蟹写褜 懈褋褌芯褉懈泄 褉邪蟹薪褘褏 褍褔邪褋褌懈泻芯胁 斜褉邪褍薪芯胁邪 写胁懈卸械薪懈褟 胁 褌芯褌 胁械褔械褉 薪邪 锌械褉械泻褉械褋褌泻械 褍谢懈褑 协褉屑褍 懈 袙械薪懈蟹械谢褍, 谐写械 褋邪屑 袟懈 - 谢懈褕褜 褝褌芯谐芯 写胁懈卸械薪懈褟 泻邪褌邪谢懈蟹邪褌芯褉, 懈 褉邪蟹薪褘械 胁械褉褋懈懈 "锌褉邪胁写褘". 胁 褝褌芯泄 褔邪褋褌懈 薪邪锌懈褋邪薪 褉芯屑邪薪 薪械蟹邪屑褘褋谢芯胁邪褌芯 褋褌懈谢懈褋褌懈褔械褋泻懈, 褏芯褌褜 懈 褋 胁褘褏芯写邪屑懈 胁 锌邪褎芯褋薪褍褞 写芯 褋谢械蟹谢懈胁芯褋褌懈 褉懈褌芯褉懈泻褍 屑械褋褌邪屑懈, 褔褌芯 胁芯芯斜褖械, 锌芯褏芯卸械, 芯褌谢懈褔懈褌械谢褜薪邪褟 褔械褉褌邪 谐褉械褔械褋泻芯泄 锌褉芯蟹褘 褏褏 胁械泻邪. 褌.械. 褝褌芯 泻芯谐写邪 邪胁褌芯褉 薪械 锌褍褋泻邪械褌褋褟 胁 薪邪褌褍褉邪谢褜薪芯 袛卸芯泄褋芯胁褘 锌邪褋褋邪卸懈 懈 胁薪褍褌褉械薪薪懈械 屑芯薪芯谢芯谐懈 懈谢懈 薪械 懈谐褉邪械褌 谐邪蟹械褌薪褘屑懈 懈谢懈 泻邪蟹械薪薪褘屑懈 褋褌懈谢褟屑懈, 泻芯褌芯褉褘屑懈 懈蟹褗褟褋薪褟褞褌褋褟 锌芯谢懈褑械泄褋泻懈械 胁褕懈. 胁 褑械谢芯屑 卸械 褉芯屑邪薪 - 胁锌芯谢薪械 芯斜褉邪蟹褔懈泻 谐褉械褔械褋泻芯谐芯 锌芯谢懈褎芯薪懈褔械褋泻芯谐芯 屑芯写械褉薪懈蟹屑邪, 褔褌芯 胁懈写薪芯 写邪卸械 锌芯 锌械褉械胁芯写褍.

...薪芯 锌芯谢褍褔懈褌褋褟 蟹邪薪懈屑邪褌械谢褜薪芯, 械褋谢懈 锌褉芯褔械褋褌褜 械谐芯 薪械 褌芯谢褜泻芯 褋 谢械胁褘褏 锌芯蟹懈褑懈泄, 褋 泻邪泻懈褏 芯薪, 褋芯斜褋褌胁械薪薪芯, 懈 斜褘谢 薪邪锌懈褋邪薪, 邪 胁褋械 卸械 薪械 蟹邪斜褘胁邪褟, 泻邪泻懈屑 屑械褉蟹泻懈屑 蟹谢芯屑 斜褘谢 懈 芯褋褌邪械褌褋褟 褋芯胁械褑泻懈泄 懈屑锌械褉褋泻懈泄 泻芯屑屑褍薪懈蟹屑 (泻褋褌邪褌懈, 小褌褉邪褌懈褋褍 笑懈褉泻邪褋褍 胁 "袚芯褉芯写邪褏 斜械蟹 褉褍谢褟 懈 胁械褌褉懈谢" 薪械 蟹邪斜褘褌褜 褝褌芯 褍写邪谢芯褋褜). 褌芯谐写邪 胁褋械 褝褌懈 谢褞屑锌械薪褘 懈 褍褕谢械锌泻懈 褋 写褍斜懈薪泻邪屑懈, 褎邪褕懈褋褌胁褍褞褖懈械 谢邪胁芯褔薪懈泻懈 懈 懈褏 泻褍泻谢芯胁芯写褘 锌褉懈芯斜褉械褌邪褞褌 薪械泻芯褌芯褉褍褞, 薪褍, 褔褌芯 谢懈 谐谢褍斜懈薪褍 懈 薪械芯写薪芯蟹薪邪褔薪芯褋褌褜. 薪械芯写薪芯屑械褉薪褘 芯薪懈 褍卸 褋芯胁械褉褕械薪薪芯 褌芯褔薪芯, 锌褉懈 褝褌芯屑 芯褋褌邪胁邪褟褋褜 屑械褉蟹泻懈屑懈 薪械褉邪蟹胁懈褌褘屑懈 薪邪褋械泻芯屑褘屑懈, 懈蟹 泻芯褌芯褉褘褏 懈 胁褘褉邪褋褌邪褞褌 芯褌胁褉邪褌懈褌械谢褜薪褘械 泻懈褕械褔薪芯锌芯谢芯褋褌薪褘械 懈 褔谢械薪懈褋褌芯薪芯谐懈械 锌褍褌懈薪褘 懈 懈屑 锌芯写芯斜薪褘械 锌褍褌懈薪芯懈写褘.

That鈥檚 the difference between Communists and donkeys: when Communists get obstinate, they don鈥檛 refuse to budge; they simply bray twice as loud.

胁屑械褋褌械 褋 褌械屑 谢械胁褘械 褌芯谐写邪 斜褘谢懈 蟹邪 屑懈褉:

Peace, I want to say, is practice. It鈥檚 refusing to pay your taxes when the money goes for armaments. It鈥檚 acting crazy to avoid military service. Peace is not an i褋on of the Virgin appearing on the front to inspire the soldiers. It鈥檚 an i褋on of statistics, figures, tangible truths. It is not鈥攁bove all, it is not an idea.

懈蟹 褋屑械褕薪芯谐芯 - 薪械芯卸懈写邪薪薪褘泄 锌褉懈胁械褌 锌邪褉邪谢谢械谢褜薪芯 锌芯褋屑芯褌褉械薪薪芯屑褍 "袩褉懈蟹褉邪泻褍 褋胁芯斜芯写褘" 袘褍薪褞褝谢褟:

In accordance with time-sanctioned usage, the accused went to the head office of the police department and 鈥渢ook cognizance.鈥� When the former Chief of Police saw someone else behind his desk, 鈥渋mpersonating鈥� the Chief of Police, he thought for a moment that he was going mad.

褔褌芯 褋芯斜芯泄 锌褉械写褋褌邪胁谢褟械褌 褋芯胁械褑泻懈泄 锌械褉械胁芯写 褉芯屑邪薪邪, 褋泻邪蟹邪褌褜 褌褉褍写薪芯, 锌芯褌芯屑褍 褔褌芯 械谐芯 薪邪蟹胁邪薪懈械 "写蟹械褌邪" 锌芯-谐褉械褔械褋泻懈 - 褝褌芯 胁褋械谐芯 谢懈褕褜 薪邪蟹胁邪薪懈械 斜褍泻胁褘, 邪 "蟹懈", 泻邪泻 芯薪芯 写芯谢卸薪芯 蟹胁褍褔邪褌 薪邪 褋邪屑芯屑 写械谢械 - 谐谢邪谐芯谢 "卸懈胁械褌", 3 谢懈褑芯, 械写.褔. (械卸褍 锌芯薪褟褌薪芯, 褔褌芯 薪邪蟹胁邪薪懈械 斜褍泻胁褘 薪械 屑芯卸械褌 斜褘褌褜 谐谢邪谐芯谢芯屑) 锌芯褋泻芯谢褜泻褍 谐谢邪胁薪褘泄 谐械褉芯泄-屑褍褔械薪懈泻 褌芯卸械 薪邪蟹褘胁邪械褌褋褟 褝褌懈屑 懈薪懈褑懈邪谢芯屑 (懈 泻 薪械屑褍 褌邪泻 懈 芯斜褉邪褖邪褞褌褋褟), 泻褉邪泄薪械 褋褌褉邪薪薪芯 懈 薪械械褋褌械褋褌胁械薪薪芯 胁懈写械褌褜 芯斜褉邪褖械薪懈械: "袩芯褋谢褍褕邪泄褌械, 袛蟹械褌邪...", 薪芯, 蟹薪邪褟 褋芯胁械褑泻褍褞 褕泻芯谢褍 锌械褉械胁芯写邪, 谢械谐泻芯 写芯锌褍褋褌懈褌褜, 褔褌芯 褌邪屑 芯薪芯 褌邪泻 懈 械褋褌褜.
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螘尉伪喂蟻蔚蟿喂魏蠈. 螘委谓伪喂 尾喂尾位委慰 蟺慰蠀 胃伪 苇蟺蟻蔚蟺蔚 谓伪 未喂未维蟽魏蔚蟿伪喂 蟽蟿伪 蟽蠂慰位蔚委伪. 螤慰位蠉 魏伪位蠈 魏伪喂 伪谓伪位蠀蟿喂魏蠈 魏伪喂 蟿慰 蔚蟺委渭蔚蟿蟻慰 蟿畏蟼 桅伪蟻委谓慰蠀 - 螠伪位伪渭伪蟿维蟻畏.
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September 13, 2021
Honestly I don't know what I think. It made me realise I read very little outright political fiction (rather than fiction with e.g. vague feminist themes), and I enjoyed that. In contrast the more ..... passionate, poetic bits I didn't like. I also find it weirdly tacky to describe the feelings of a widow whose husband died in a political assassination, when said widow was (is?) still alive. I kept thinking, what if she doesn't feel like this, what if she's angrier or number or whatever? Idk why that bothered me in a way that the flowery descriptions of his other friends'/political allies' didn't, maybe because it's a private, personal relationship in a book which is primarily political. Or because she's basically the only woman ;) Ah well. It does make me wanna read more old-timey political fiction - maybe I'll finally tackle Kollontai!!!!
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October 31, 2010
Kind of like the 60s version of Rashomon - it's all the depositions and newspaper accounts of the assassination of a Communist MP in Greece by some thugs paid by right-wing politicians. I've wanted to read this ever since I saw the movie in high school. With the exception of a psychedelic interlude that immediately dates the book to the 60s, Z will likely activate your hippie hell-no-we-won't-go gene, if you have one.
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August 4, 2007
This book was written during the trials of those accused of the assassination of 'Z' in Greece in the 1960s. Sometimes the floral writing got annoying, but the pseudonyms were rather interesting (depending on the translation from Greek). If you're very interested in getting into the nitty gritty of Greek history, this is a key book to read.
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May 15, 2016
The film took me by surprise in just how gripping it was and the book did the same. It's narrative is interesting as it follows the account of a fictional assassination which fills in for a real one that took place in Greece in the 1960's. Shocking to think that this can take place in the western world so recently.
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March 2, 2012
When a true story, that has shaken Greek Political system and society, comes to a well-written book, it is our obligation to read it!
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April 25, 2025
For the speech ahead, he鈥檇 merely made some notes. When you have something to say, it鈥檚 not difficult to say it. The difficulty comes when you have nothing to say and must talk anyway.
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賳賲乇賴贁 賵丕賯毓蹖: 鄢.鄣
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November 28, 2016
Z l'orgia del potere racconta la vicenda, realmente accaduta, dell'uccisione del deputato di sinistra Grigoris Lambrakis (che nel libro viene chiamato Z - "猫 vivo" in greco). L'omicidio, architettato dalla polizia in collaborazione con un'organizzazione di estrema destra, grazie a vari tentativi di insabbiamento e depistaggio all'inizio viene archiviato come un tragico incidente. Ma, dopo l'arresto di due dei responsabili, un giudice decide di vederci chiaro e aiutato da un testimone volontario e un giornalista, riesce ad accertare la verit脿 e fa incriminare per omicidio premeditato i due arrestati, il capo della polizia e alcuni alti ufficiali dell'esercito. Il tutto, qualche anno prima che in Grecia si insedi la dittatura dei colonelli.
Il libro, scritto nel 1970, 猫 diviso in 5 parti: la prima racconta il dramma di quella notte, e la bravura dell'autore ci fa immergere in un'atmosfera a tratti asfissiante; la seconda, a mio giudizio la pi霉 bella e poetica, con la descrizione del viaggio in treno della bara del deputato ucciso e parallelamente della sua anima, che lo segue dall'alto; la terza, col racconto serrato delle indagini, dei tentativi di depistaggio e insabbiamento; la quarta, con gli interrogatori dei principali accusati; la quinta, che racconta il vuoto lasciato da Z nella vita di chi lo aveva conosciuto.
Un libro scritto in maniera eccellente, che mi ha permesso di conoscere pi霉 a fondo la figura di Lambrakis e che, grazie al suo alto contenuto emotivo, 猫 un potente atto d'accusa contro il futuro regime dei colonelli.
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September 17, 2019

Z is a really good book. It leads you to think critically about the government and the people in it, especially the beaurocrats (not the politicians) and the power they weild over people. What does it mean to be righteous? What does it mean to do the right thing at any cost? There are several books that go through those dilemmas. Several classics, surely.


Z is another book that does that. What would you do if you were a poor carpenter, dependent on the police's grace for your license, if you saw a murder happen? Would you report it? Would you volunteer to reveal what you know? Would you stick to your story even when you know the consequences? It's hard to describe this book because there's so much going on. At the core of the story is the murder of Z. What follows, is a sometimes-comical, sometimes-Kafka-esque, mostly realistic game of shadows and mirrors as people try to mask their role in the murder.



In every man鈥攅specially in a porter鈥攖here are smoldering embers from a life never lived, a house never built, a pickup license never obtained. At the slightest breath, the embers flare up and the past comes to life.




Such things keep bobbing to the surface and there are left, unexamined forever, because no one can wrest the truth from those who don鈥檛 want to tell it.



P.S: If you have ever had to get a group of engineers to explain what their system does to you with a diagram and they were unable to explain it to you despite 4 hours of meetings over 2 weeks, you know what the author is talking about in this quote.


The Longer Version

Every once in a while, you come across a movie so good, so intricate and subtle, so resonant with your own experiences around the system the movie is depicting, that you are stuck watching it in a never-ending loop. Shanghai (2012), a Hindi movie, was one of those movies for me. It perfectly portrayed everything that I had experienced and heard about from other people about the way the government really works, about how contracts are awarded, and how people talk to each other when they are the ultimate decision makers in their own little play-world.


I found out that the movie was actually adapted from a book on my n-th re-watch of the movie in the first few weeks of September this month. Once I realized that a book existed, I had to read it. And now, I have read it and I am very glad that I did!


Z is a really good book. There are several parallel narratives which go hand-in-hand as the story progresses:



the conversations real and imagined, between Z, his followers, his wife, Z's own thoughts
The Investigator's beliefs and attempts to bring the truth to light, his almost spiritual belief that light can be shone on the truth no matter how long the process or how crafty the people who want the darkness to persist forever
The Journalist and his make-belief world of a private investigator, the advice he gives to people around him, the assurances of protection, often putting himself at risk
Yango, Vango, Baron and the world of the toughs, the people at the very bottom of the food chain. They are at the mercy of everyone else most of the time. But at a few key moments, they rise to the top and they are beyond everyone's control. And these moments, even though engineered by the people at the top who like to believe that they control the outcomes and are acting in a crafty knowing way, are just as powerless as the victims that they wish to oppress
The General and his belief in the ideology, his frustrations with the people around him, the difficulty he has in getting out of an analogy that he thought was useful but turns out to be too all-encompassing
The Tiger and Nikitas, the righteous people in this group. The people who believe that it is their duty to tell the truth, whether the consequences be favorable or not. The people who are hard to pursue, the people on whom even their own mother turned. It is the sense of duty in the people like Nikitas that leads to an inability to ignore facts.
And finally, at the very end, The Commissioner. He was at the top of the food chain, and now he was imprisoned with the likes of Yango. He was orchestrating the events, and before he knew, he realized that he was part of a much larger plot with a much more important conductor. He decided to tell-all and thus, we understand the full story. Right from the first meeting about downy mildew to the last scene of the book, the General trying to pay off the Tiger

In all these narratives, the common thread is often Z. The other common thread is the system that they live in. Implicitly, they understand their place in the system. The General knows that by being at the meeting, he has undermined the command of the Chief. The Chief knows that by being there, he's basically taken over control from the Assistant Chief. The Commissioner can't act when a "full-blown General" is at the scene. Yango wants people to see him having coffee with The Commissioner. Whether they like it or not, whether their interest is on the left or the right, whether they are Communist-Zionist or Hellenic-Christians, the system has kept them aprised of their place and their responsibilities. The Baron doesn't see a choice when he's asked to beat up people, he must do it. He has a stall and he would only be asking for trouble if he were to deny to perform an act that ensures his place in the system.


This book forced me to ask the question: What system are you a part of? What is your place in the system? Do you know your responsibilities? Are you performing them? Are you doing the right thing?


Hard questions, and half imagined, I am sure.


Quotes

When he compared the number of patients he cured with the number of human beings the world over who could not buy even the most ordinary medicines, it was enough to make him shudder. The same with begging. What was the good of giving money to the poor? The balance of poverty on the planet remained unaltered. For the world to change, the system had to change.



-- Z on the importance of systemic change



His own pulse was calm. For the speech ahead, he鈥檇 merely made some notes. When you have something to say, it鈥檚 not difficult to say it. The difficulty comes when you have nothing to say and must talk anyway.



-- Z on oration



I imagine myself at a railway crossing and the guard has put up the chain between us, an endless train roars over the rails, with as many cars as the years I shall not see you. Only at fleeting moments, through the spaces between the cars, I catch a rare image of you waiting for me on the far side.



-- Mrs. Z on Z



What was politics anyway, Hatzis wondered. Did it hold nothing sacred? Or maybe there was no difference at all between the bourgeois parties? Sometimes the one rose, sometimes the other, like two peasants sharing the same mule, and the mule鈥攖he common people鈥攋ust went on carrying them one after the other upon its back, understanding the change only from the difference in weight.



-- The Tiger on Politics


The first chapter where Z narrates in first person is the best chapter in the book. I always wondered what that character was thinking and what his beliefs were whenever I saw the movie, this chapter was incredibly enlightening on that account.


P.S: This was also the first time that I was able to fit all my #quote Kindle notes into the review of a book!


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Z by Vassilis Vassilikos
9.5 out of 10


Alas, if you are looking for Z by Vassilis Vassilikos, the entries you find on the internet are scarce and the work that has been considered a masterpiece does not even have a Wikipedia page 鈥� whereas a multitude of futile, useless things and names have more than a page, they often have more than plenty 鈥� although it has been included on The Guardian鈥檚 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read list - - in the State of the Nation section.

This reader has been transmogrified by the adaptation for the big screen, directed by the marvelous Costa-Gavras, with the magnificent, radiant Yves Montand and Jean-Louis Trintignant, a magnum opus that has won two Oscars, being nominated for Best Motion Picture, Best Director, the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film, the Jury Prize and Best Actor at the most relevant cinematic gathering, The Cannes Film Festival.
In fact, that initial impression, of decades ago, when the poignancy of the images was so powerful that the deputy who is hit with a club on the head stayed in my mind for the intervening years and unfortunately has managed somehow to overpower the rendition of the events described in the novel, which became thus one of the few perhaps no more than ten 鈥� books to be surpassed by the film, when both are magical.

One issue that one may have with the novel Z might be that it tends to be long, probably too long for the readers of this age 鈥� including the undersigned 鈥� especially if one knows the story, which I did, and the details of the process, the finding of the culprits, the overturning of initial false, incriminating statements made, in which vicious specialist said that the death of Z was caused by a fall and not by the club with which he was hit on the head, before the pickup with three wheels is driven across his body, which had stumbled to the ground.
The name of the book which is also the name chosen for the main character is fabulous in that it is a symbol and works better that a substitute for Grigoris Lambrakis, the real life deputy who had been killed in 1963, in Salonika, which has become in the meantime Thessaloniki, and Vassilis Vassilikos could have written about Alexis Gavras 鈥� by the way, Alexis Zorba by Nikos Kazantzakis is yet another contemporary chef d鈥檕euvre, by another Greek phenomenon 鈥� but the power resting within Z is glorious.

Another reluctance that this reader has had and it prevented it from fully attaching to Z, the narrative and the 鈥榞ood personages鈥� within is connected with the political orientation of the camp of the hero, for albeit he seems to be rather independent, detached from the communists, those are his most fervent supporters and this is anathema for someone who has 鈥榖enefited鈥� from their doctrine, the cruel, exterminating, murderous tyranny brought by the Soviets, with the slogan 鈥榓ll animals are equal鈥�, whereas we knew in practice, and from George Orwell, that 鈥榮ome animals are more equal than others鈥�.
The hero is presented as close to a God, an athlete with a superb physique, with achievements in competitions, convincing, brave, powerful, intelligent and able to lead the crowds, but when he arrives in the city of Salonika, the local extreme right is poised to make an example out of him and his followers, using the authority, infrastructure of the police and other local institutions to beat, abuse, eventually eliminate, throw stones at those taking part in the meeting 鈥� which was difficult, almost impossible to organize, for the local leaders pressed those in charge of the venues to refuse the requests of the leftists.

A general, the chief of police and other high-ranking officials are all involved in the murder of Z, albeit it would be difficult 鈥� perhaps unattainable. 鈥� to convict those who gave the orders, in spite of the fact that the monsters used to swing the tools of death are apprehended quite soon 鈥� against the wishes of their leaders, who try to hide at least one of them, but because one courageous, heroic individual, Hatzis, jumps on the three wheeler, just as it tries to disappear from the crime scene, after the deputy had been clubbed on the head and then driven over, and he fights with the two monsters and thus exposes them to a possible punishment by the law.
Yango Gazgouradis and his partner in crime Vango, a pedophile who abuses victims and is protected by the police, in exchange for his brutality, the force he uses on opponents of the extreme right wing, those who call themselves Friends of Peace are communists all for the mad, pro fascist forces 鈥� they have alas not gone into extinction, either in Greece, where they have the Golden Dawn, or in other places, like America, where the supremacists, extremists now have an idol, the orange buffoon that 53% of republicans a new poll shows think he is better than鈥incoln!

The goons speak loudly about what they are going to do, after all, who is going to arrest them, if the chief of police and other men in uniform are the ones who organize and press them to abuse, beat and eventually kill their opposition, with promises of money and the abolition of fines, misdemeanors and other penalties they may face, the two killers and others who have been brought to the forefront to attack those who want to participate in the meeting and get close to the heroic Z.

Killing the brave, valuable, superhuman almost hero has some mixed results and we could say that on the one hand, his departure would have a tremendous echo, would help to unite his supporters, who have such a magnificent cause now, a God-like figure, eventually they win political power, but on the other hand, without going into spoiler details, we could also point out the fact that the process of bringing justice is immensely difficult 鈥� it ever achieved 鈥� and many of those involved, from Z, who pays with his life for his ideals, to Hatzis and others who g=face abuse, discrimination and physical violence for their decision to stand for justice, human values, truth, democracy and rule of law.
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袪械褌泻芯 屑懈 褋械 写械褕邪胁邪 写邪 褋褍 懈 褉芯屑邪薪 懈 褎懈谢屑 锌芯 褉芯屑邪薪褍 褌芯谢懈泻芯 写芯斜褉懈 泻邪芯 褕褌芯 褬械 褌芯 褋谢褍褔邪褬 褋邪 袟. 小邪 锌褉懈褔芯屑 芯 褍斜懈褋褌胁褍 袚褉懈谐芯褉懈褋邪 袥邪屑斜褉邪泻懈褋邪 1963. 褋邪屑 褋械 胁械褯 褋褍褋褉械芯 泻邪写邪 褋邪屑 芯写谐谢械写邪芯 褎懈谢屑 "袟" 袣芯褋褌械 袚邪胁褉邪褋邪, 懈 褌邪写 屑懈 褋械 褉芯写懈谢邪 卸械褭邪 写邪 锌褉芯褔懈褌邪屑 泻褮懈谐褍. 袠 袙邪褋懈谢懈泻芯褋 懈 袚邪胁褉邪褋 褋褍 薪邪锌褉邪胁懈谢懈 懈蟹褍蟹械褌薪邪 褍屑械褌薪懈褔泻邪 写械谢邪. 袠 褋胁邪泻芯 褬械 褌芯 褍褉邪写懈芯 懈蟹胁谢邪褔械褯懈 屑邪泻褋懈屑邪谢薪芯 懈蟹 泻懈薪械屑邪褌芯谐褉邪褎懈褬械, 芯写薪芯褋薪芯 懈蟹 泻褮懈卸械胁薪芯褋褌懈. 袨褔械泻懈胁邪芯 褋邪屑 写邪 褯械 芯胁邪褬 褉芯屑邪薪 袙邪褋懈谢懈褋邪 袙邪褋懈谢懈泻芯褋邪 斜懈褌懈 褋褍胁芯锌邪褉邪薪 褬械褉 褬械, 泻邪泻芯 褋褌芯褬懈 褍 锌芯写薪邪褋谢芯胁褍, 褉械褔 芯 "懈蟹屑懈褕褭械薪芯屑 写芯泻褍屑械薪褌邪褉褑褍 褬械写薪芯谐 蟹谢芯褔懈薪邪", 懈 写邪 褯械 褋褌芯谐邪 斜懈褌懈 胁懈褕械 褏褉芯薪懈褔邪褉褋泻芯谐 泻邪褉邪泻褌械褉邪. 袦械褣褍褌懈屑 褍芯锌褕褌械 薪懈褬械 褌邪泻芯.
袣邪芯 锌褉胁芯, 褉芯屑邪薪 谐芯胁芯褉懈 芯 谐褉褔泻芯屑 薪邪褉芯写薪芯屑 锌芯褋谢邪薪懈泻褍 泻芯褬懈 褬械 褍斜懈褬械薪 褍 小芯谢褍薪褍 1963. 谐芯写懈薪械 懈 芯 写芯谐邪褣邪褬懈屑邪 泻芯褬懈 褋褍 褍褋谢械写懈谢懈 薪邪泻芯薪 褌芯谐邪, 锌褉械 褋胁械谐邪 芯 褋褍写褋泻芯褬 懈褋褌褉邪蟹懈 泻芯褬褍 褬械 胁芯写懈芯 啸褉懈褋褌芯褋 小邪褉褑械褌邪泻懈褋 (斜褍写褍褯懈 锌褉械写褋械写薪懈泻 袚褉褔泻械 懈蟹 芯褋邪屑写械褋械褌懈褏), 邪 泻芯褬懈 褋褍 褋胁懈 斜懈谢懈 褍胁械褉褌懈褉邪 蟹邪 胁芯褬薪褍 褏褍薪褌褍 褍 袚褉褔泻芯褬 泻褉邪褬械屑 褕械蟹写械褋械褌懈褏 懈 锌芯褔械褌泻芯屑 褋械写邪屑写械褋械褌懈褏 谐芯写懈薪邪 XX 胁械泻邪. 袪芯屑邪薪 褬械 锌褉胁芯斜懈褌薪芯 褌褉械斜邪芯 写邪 褋械 蟹芯胁械 "袞懈胁 褬械 袚褉懈谐芯褉懈褋 袥邪屑斜褉邪泻懈褋" (螙蔚喂 慰 螕蟻畏纬蠈蟻畏蟼 螞伪渭蟺蟻维魏畏蟼), 邪谢懈 褬械 薪邪 泻褉邪褬褍 邪褍褌芯褉 芯写谢褍褔懈芯 写邪 薪邪褋谢芯胁 斜褍写械 褋邪屑芯 锌芯褔械褌薪芯 褋谢芯胁芯 "袟" 褍 褋屑懈褋谢褍 "卸懈胁 褬械" 薪邪 谐褉褔泻芯屑. 小褌芯谐邪 褬械 褍 褉芯屑邪薪褍 袥邪屑锌褉邪泻懈褋 蟹邪锌褉邪胁芯 袟, 邪 小芯谢褍薪 谐写械 褬械 袥邪屑斜褉邪泻懈褋 褍斜懈褬械薪 "校写械褌械褉褍锌芯谢懈" (斜褍泻胁. "薪械泻懈 薪械褍褌褉邪谢邪薪 谐褉邪写"). 袗谢懈 芯褋懈屑 芯胁懈褏 "褋泻褉懈胁械薪懈褏" 懈屑械薪邪 懈 薪械泻懈褏 "写懈薪芯褋邪褍褉褋泻懈褏 薪邪蟹懈胁邪" 芯褋褌邪谢懈褏 谢懈泻芯胁邪, 褋胁械 褬械 胁褉谢芯 褉械邪谢薪芯. 孝芯 褬械 薪邪褬褬械蟹懈胁懈褬械 褍 芯胁芯褬 锌褉懈褔懈, 泻芯谢懈泻芯 褬械 褉械邪谢邪薪 芯褉谐邪薪懈蟹芯胁邪薪 泻褉懈屑懈薪邪谢, 褎邪褕懈褋褌懈褔泻懈 褉械卸懈屑懈 泻芯褬懈 泻芯褉懈褋褌械 锌邪褉邪写褉卸邪胁薪械 褋褌褉褍泻褌褍褉械 蟹邪 褋胁芯褬械 褑懈褭械胁械, 泻邪芯 懈 芯薪芯 褕褌芯 蟹芯胁械屑芯 "谢芯胁 薪邪 胁械褕褌懈褑械".
小胁械 斜懈 褌芯 褍泻邪蟹懈胁邪谢芯 写邪 褬械 芯胁芯 褋褍胁芯锌邪褉邪薪, 写芯泻褍屑械薪褌邪褉邪薪 褉芯屑邪薪 芯 写芯谐邪褣邪褬懈屑邪 泻芯褬懈 褋褍 褋械 蟹邪懈褋褌邪 写械褕邪胁邪谢懈 褕械蟹写械褋械褌懈褏 谐芯写懈薪邪 褍 袚褉褔泻芯褬. 袦械褣褍褌懈屑 袙邪褋懈谢懈泻芯褋 褬械 薪邪锌褉邪胁懈芯 褑械芯 懈屑邪谐懈薪邪褉薪懈 褋胁械褌, 芯锌懈褋褍褬褍褯懈 薪邪 胁械芯屑邪 谢懈褉褋泻懈 薪邪褔懈薪 屑薪芯谐械 邪泻褌械褉械, 泻邪芯 褕褌芯 褬械 袟-芯胁邪 卸械薪邪, 锌芯褋谢邪薪懈泻 袩懈褉褍褏邪褋, 啸邪褵懈褋 蟹胁邪薪懈 孝懈谐邪褉 懈 芯褋褌邪谢懈. 袥懈泻芯胁懈 褉邪蟹谐芯胁邪褉邪褬褍 褋邪 屑褉褌胁懈屑 袟, 锌懈褕褍 屑懈 锌懈褋屑邪, 胁芯写械 薪械褍蟹胁褉邪褯邪薪械 写懈褬邪谢芯谐械 褋邪 谢懈泻芯屑 泻芯谐邪 胁懈褕械 薪械屑邪. 袣邪芯 褕褌芯 袟-芯胁邪 写褍褕邪 褍 褬械写薪芯屑 写械谢褍 泻褮懈谐械 褋械 芯锌褉邪褕褌邪 芯写 褋胁芯谐 褌械谢邪, 褌械 邪薪褌褉芯锌芯屑芯褉褎薪邪 写褍褕邪 褋械 锌懈褌邪 褕褌邪 褬械 褌芯 褋屑褉褌 懈 泻邪泻芯 屑芯卸械 写邪 锌芯褋褌芯褬懈 斜械蟹 褌械谢邪. 袌械写邪薪 写械芯 泻芯褬懈 屑懈 褬械 锌芯褋械斜薪芯 斜懈芯 褍锌械褔邪褌褭懈胁 褬械 泻邪写邪 褋械 褉邪褮械薪懈 袩懈褉褍褏邪褋 褋械褯邪芯 袟, 锌邪 泻邪卸械: "袨褋械褯邪屑 褋械 写芯斜褉芯, 芯褋械褯邪屑 褋械 褉褍卸薪芯, 薪邪写邪屑 褋械, 芯褔邪褬邪薪 褋邪屑 写邪 褋械 褋褉械褌薪械屑 褋邪 褌芯斜芯屑. 效懈褮械薪懈褑邪 写邪 薪械 屑芯卸械屑芯 蟹邪褬械写薪芯 写邪 锌芯褋褌芯褬懈屑芯 褬械 蟹斜芯谐 褌芯谐邪 褕褌芯 褌懈 懈 褬邪 锌褉懈锌邪写邪屑芯 褉邪蟹谢懈褔懈褌懈屑 褋胁械褌芯胁懈屑邪: 褌懈 锌褉懈锌邪写邪褕 褋胁械褌褍 卸懈胁懈褏 屑褉褌胁邪褑邪, 邪 褬邪 褋胁械褌褍 屑褉褌胁芯卸懈胁褍褯懈褏."
孝褍 褬械 薪邪褉邪胁薪芯 懈 泻褉懈褌懈泻邪 褌邪写邪褕褮械谐 写褉褍褕褌胁邪, 薪械 褋邪屑芯 褎邪褕懈褋褌懈褔泻懈褏 谐褉褍锌邪褑懈褬邪 懈 胁芯褬薪芯谐 懈 锌芯谢懈褑懈褬褋泻芯谐 胁褉褏邪, 胁械褯 懈 芯褋褌邪谢懈褏 褋褌褉邪薪邪. 袙邪褋懈谢懈泻芯褋 褬械 泻褉懈褌懈泻芯胁邪芯 泻邪泻芯 袣邪褉邪屑邪薪谢懈褋邪 懈 褮械谐芯胁 褉械卸懈屑, 褌邪泻芯 懈 锌芯褌械蟹械 袚械芯褉谐懈芯褋邪 袩邪锌邪薪写褉械褍邪. 袗谢懈 锌懈褋邪褑 薪邪屑 锌芯褋械斜薪芯 芯锌懈褋褍褬械 蟹邪褕褌芯 褭褍写懈 褉邪写械 褌芯 褕褌芯 褉邪写械, 泻芯褬懈 褋褍 褮懈褏芯胁懈 屑芯褌懈胁懈, 写邪 谢懈 褉邪写械 褋褌胁邪褉懈 褋胁芯褬械胁芯褭薪芯 懈谢懈 锌褉芯褌懈胁 褋胁芯褬械 胁芯褭械 懈 褋谢懈褔薪芯.
袟邪 泻褉邪褬, 褋胁懈褣邪 屑懈 褋械 锌芯褋械斜薪芯 褬械写薪邪 褉械褔械薪懈褑邪 泻芯褬械 褋械 褋械褯邪屑 懈蟹 褎懈谢屑邪, 邪 锌芯褋褌芯褬懈 懈 褍 褉芯屑邪薪褍 褍 屑邪谢芯 写褉褍谐邪褔懈褬芯褬 褎芯褉屑懈. 袣邪写邪 褋褍 薪芯胁懈薪邪褉懈 懈褋锌懈褌懈胁邪谢懈 袚械薪械褉邪谢邪 泻芯褬懈 褬械 懈褋锌懈褌懈胁邪薪 泻芯褬邪 褬邪 斜懈谢邪 褮械谐芯胁邪 褍谢芯谐邪 褍 褌褉邪谐懈褔薪懈屑 写芯谐邪褣邪褬懈屑邪 22. 屑邪褬邪 泻邪写邪 褬械 褍斜懈褬械薪 3, 芯薪 谐芯胁芯褉懈 泻邪泻芯 屑褍 薪邪屑械褕褌邪褬褍. 袟斜芯谐 褌芯谐邪 谐邪 薪芯胁懈薪邪褉 褍锌芯褉械写懈 褋邪 褔褍胁械薪懈屑 褎褉邪薪褑褍褋泻懈屑 芯褎懈褑懈褉芯屑 袛褉邪褬褎褍褋芯屑, 薪邪 褕褌邪 褋械 袚械薪械褉邪谢 褍胁褉械写懈芯 泻邪泻芯 褋褍 "屑芯谐谢懈 写邪 谐邪 褍锌芯褉械写械 褋邪 褬械写薪懈屑 褬械胁褉械褬褋泻懈屑 泻芯屑褍薪懈褋褌芯屑" (褍 褎懈谢屑褍 袚械薪械褉邪谢 芯写谐芯胁芯褉懈: "袣邪芯 袛褉邪褬褎褍褋?! 袩邪 芯薪 褬械 蟹邪懈褋褌邪 斜懈芯 泻褉懈胁!"). 袣褉芯蟹 芯胁邪泻邪胁 褏褍屑锟斤拷褉 袙邪褋懈谢懈泻芯褋 锌芯泻邪蟹褍褬械 褋邪胁 褍卸邪褋 褭褍写懈 泻芯褬懈 褋褍 写芯胁械谢懈 写芯 褋屑褉褌懈 袟 懈谢懈 袚褉懈谐芯褉懈褋邪 袥邪屑斜褉邪泻懈褋邪.
袣褮懈谐邪 薪械屑邪 锌褉邪胁懈 泻褉邪褬, 褬械褉 写芯泻 褬械 邪褍褌芯褉 锌懈褋邪芯 褉芯屑邪薪 褋谢褍褔邪褬 褬芯褕 褍胁械泻 薪懈褬械 斜懈芯 锌褉邪胁薪芯 褉械褕械薪.
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