Apostolos Doxiadis

Books

Three Little Pigs: A Story

Three Little Pigs: A Story

Three brothers. One mafia curse. A gripping mafia thriller, at once a folk tale-like adventure story and moral fable Ben Frank has blood on his hands. He knows that he has killed a man in a bar-room brawl. He knows that as an Italian immigrant in turn-of-the-century New York, life is tough. But what he doesn’t know is that the …continue reading…


Circles Disturbed: The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative

Circles Disturbed brings together important thinkers in mathematics, history, and philosophy to explore the relationship between mathematics and narrative. The book’s title recalls the last words of the great Greek mathematician Archimedes before he was slain by a Roman soldier–“Don’t disturb my circles”–words that seem to refer to two radically different concerns: that of the practical person living in the …continue reading…


Parallel Life

The novella Parallel Life (1985) is set in the early Christian world. It is a tale of desperate passion: when a young Greek, Melanippos, discovers his wife cheating on him, he leaves home to become a hermit in the Egyptian desert. There are two threads in the story, one following his arduous struggle, the other his errant wife, Hyacinthe, who …continue reading…


Makavettas

Makavettas (1988) is a retelling of the Macbeth story, set in the world of the Greek Junta, 1967-1974. In a tongue-in-cheek crisp style reminiscent of Byzantine chronicles, it tells the story of the transformation of brilliant and virtuous Colonel Makavettas into a power-crazed tyrant. The Shakespearean legend lends an archetypal resonance to this modern tragic-comic parable which becomes especially relevant …continue reading…


Logicomix

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. The book’s narrator is the most eloquent and spirited of the quest’s heroes, the great logician and …continue reading…


Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture

Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture (2000) tells the tale of brilliant mathematician Petros Papachristos, who devotes his life to solving a notoriously difficult problem. His young nephew’s passion to unearth his secret leads to a fascinating denouement which reveals the full existential grandeur of Petros’s dream and the deep mystery of mathematics. This moving novel is an international bestseller, currently …continue reading…