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"As if you were pulling the moon from its orbit": with this expression, archaeologist Edward Daniel Clarke described the horror of the Greeks as they watched in terror the actions of the English, certain that sooner or later the soul of the Greek land would take revenge.
In a store in Paris specialized in mountaineering equipment, Andrea Markolongko bought a camp bed, a sleeping bag, and a flashlight. The next evening, she opened her camp bed and spread the sleeping bag not on the summit of some mountain, but in a deserted hall of the Acropolis Museum in Athens. In May 2022, Andrea had the unique fortune to spend a night there completely alone. The night is the time for ghosts and reflections.
Two shadows would visit her: the shadow of Lord Elgin, the English ambassador who committed the theft of the Parthenon sculptures in the early 19th century, sending them to London in crates, and the shadow of a recently lost man, born in a humble village in Italy, her father. However, the voids in the halls of the Acropolis Museum, the white plaster additions in place of the sculptures removed two centuries ago, resonate next to the voids from which we ourselves are made: guilt and shame, when one day we recognize the thread that connects us to the parent we considered distant and from whom we wanted to break free.
"It was a sweet spring evening, and the unexpected photo shoot lasted ten minutes. Andrea would stay there all night alone, accompanied by the statues, with a notebook and pencil and a folding camp bed in case she wanted to sleep. Ultimately, Morpheus only appeared at dawn, and Andrea slept for one hour lost in her thoughts, having first immersed herself in her writings and connected with the imposing and poignant time-space that the museum granted her.
[...] Watching from afar the silhouette of Markolongko fading before the ancient exhibits, I thought that that night she would experience the most meaningful pilgrimage of her life." Nikos Aliagas, Kathimerini
"An elegy for Greece, lasting an entire night, which Markolongko had the privilege to spend in the Acropolis Museum. [...] Alone among those glass walls that inevitably direct your gaze toward the sacred rock and its most brilliant temple. Alone with her melancholic thoughts about a Greece that has been deprived of a cultural heritage for centuries, while the West appropriated it with both hands. [...] This narrative is an act of love from Markolongko for Greece. And her highly personal mea culpa for what she, like all of us, took from Greece and the Greeks, without ever giving it back." Cinzia Dal Maso, La Repubblica
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- Author
- Andrea Marcolongo
- Publisher
- Patakis
- Original Title
- Spostare la luna dall' orbita
- Publishers
- Patakis
- Skroutz Book Awards 2026
- -
- Type
- Prose
- Subtitle
- -
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 184
- Release Date
- 27/11/2024
- Publication Date
- 2024
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789601688831
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