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Logicomix, a graphic novel, is based on the epic story of the quest for the foundations of mathematics. This is a quintessentially modern intellectual adventure, most of whose protagonists paid the price of knowledge with extreme personal suffering and, in some cases, insanity.
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Uncle Petros is a family joke. An ageing recluse, he lives alone in a suburb of Athens, playing the odd game of chess and tending to his garden. If you didn't know better, you'd surely think he was one of life's failures.
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The Three Little Men (1997), is a variation on the traditional fairy tale. It begins in turn-of-the century New York and, although a short novel, becomes a telescopic saga, covering over fifty years of action and half the globe.
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Makavettas (1988), Doxiadis's second book, employs a style inspired from Byzantine military chronika (chronicles) to tell the story of a modern colonel crazed by power.
In Greek
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Parallel Life (1985), a novella, is Doxiadis's first published work. Set in the 4th century A.D., the strong, moving tale of desperate passion is told in the style of an imaginary saint's life.
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Doxiadis’s new play is centered around Kurt Gödel, the greatest modern logician, creating a fictional account of the last days of his life. Written in English, the play explores the implications of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem in real life.
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The play's fictional author, American poet, film-director and visionary Alfred Hoos, supposedly wrote The Tragical History of Jackson Pollock, Abstract Expressionist near the end of his life, in the mid 1960's, only to relegate it soon afterwards, for his own undisclosed reasons...
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