![]() ![]() ![]() Written in a tongue-in-cheek imitation of Greek folk military memoirs, such as that of Yannis Makriyannis, it follows the plot of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, of which the eponymous hero’s name is a Hellenized form. His first novel, Makavettas ( Μακαβέττας, 1988), recounted the adventures of a fictional power-hungry colonel at the time of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. His first published work was A Parallel Life ( Βίος Παράλληλος, 1985), a novella set in the monastic communities of 4th century CE Egypt. ![]() Fiction in Greekĭoxiadis began to write in Greek. In Greece, although involved for some years with the computer software industry, Doxiadis returned to his childhood and adolescence loves of theatre and the cinema, before becoming a full-time writer. His father’s death and family reasons made him return to Greece in 1975, interrupting his graduate studies. He then attended the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris from which he got a master's degree, with a thesis on the mathematical modeling of the nervous system. Though his earliest interests were in poetry, fiction and the theatre, an intense interest in mathematics led Doxiadis to leave school at age fifteen, to attend Columbia University, in New York, from which he obtained a bachelor's degree in Mathematics in May 1972. Soon after his birth, the family returned to Athens, where Doxiadis grew up. Doxiadis was born in Australia, where his father, the architect Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis was working. ![]()
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