The work concludes seventy years before the time when "The Mother of the Dog" begins. In the deeper Greece, a mountainous demonic region that has not been blessed with a miracle for two centuries, Elissaios will emerge. Violently charismatic, with scams and accompanied by the longing of the world, he will rise to become a miraculous figure. Until, thanks to a grand deception (orchestrated by his most beloved), Elissaios will perform a true miracle. And he will be horrified.
The human need for miracles. Its demand to perform miracles, challenging its higher powers. The devout parents who will allow their child to die so that Elissaios can resurrect him and thus gain glory. The deep, wild, Greek unconscious. Dark, revolutionary, and rebelled. The beauty of wild accomplishments, desires that are yearned for but not dared, the Greek demand to conquer, to claim the height and breadth of God, in a work that superficially only relates to religions.
The Greek thirst not for the everyday but for the "celebratory" reality. The Greek demand, life has become a frenzy; otherwise, it becomes a burden. Debts: to Homer, to the stories of Papoulakis, to Faulkner (a phrase of his has been incorporated into the work, to safeguard the text). I owe the title of the book to Kastoria.
P.M. "With 'The Old Man of Days,' a novel equally dazzling as 'The Mother of the Dog,' it is confirmed that Matesis is a very great novelist..." (L. Liban, "L' Express," Paris). "... with 'The Old Man of Days,' surely the subversive Goya would have been delighted..." (M. Grodent, "Magazine des arts et Divertissements," Brussels).
