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Modinos Michalis

Modinos Michalis

Michalis Modinos, an environmentalist, geographer and engineer, was born in Athens in 1950. Both as a theorist and an activist of the ecology movement, he has worked with international organizations and taught in various universities around the world. Since 2005 he has turned to literature and literary criticism. Kastaniotis editions have published his novels Gold Coast (2005), The Great Abai (2007) and Coming Home (2009).

The raft

PARIS, 1818. A female Robinson Crusoe, Madame Jeupardieu, visits the young painter Théodore Géricault in his Montmartre studio. She has a myriad of personal stories to tell, first and foremost being her experience amidst the wreck of the naval frigate Méduse, which set sail in June 1816 for the purpose of establishing an African colony when it struck the Banc d’Arguin and sank, causing a major political scandal. From the astonishing scenes that took place on the raft carrying the few survivors, Géricault will draw inspiration for the painting set to grant him everlasting fame. In The Raft of the Medusa, he will incorporate the odyssey of all humankind and lay the foundations for the Romantic movement.

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