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Dimitris Lyacos is the author of Until the Victim Becomes Our Own and the internationally acclaimed Poena Damni trilogy. Defying genre distinctions and described as “total literature,” his work has appeared in translation in more than twenty languages and inspired projects in contemporary music, theatre, dance, visual art and photography.
Dimitris Lyacos is the author of Until the Victim Becomes Our Own and the internationally acclaimed Poena Damni trilogy. Defying genre distinctions and described as “total literature,” his work has appeared in translation in more than twenty languages and inspired projects in contemporary music, theatre, dance, visual art and photography.
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Dimitris Lyacos is the author of Until the Victim Becomes Our Own and the internationally acclaimed Poena Damni trilogy. Defying genre distinctions and described as “total literature,” his work has appeared in translation in more than twenty languages and inspired projects in contemporary music, theatre, dance, visual art and photography.
Dimitris Lyacos is the author of Until the Victim Becomes Our Own and the internationally acclaimed Poena Damni trilogy. Defying genre distinctions and described as “total literature,” his work has appeared in translation in more than twenty languages and inspired projects in contemporary music, theatre, dance, visual art and photography.
Moving across prose, poetry, drama and theory, Lyacos examines violence and ritual, exclusion and scapegoating, and the changing forms of the divine. Until the Victim Becomes Our Own, conceived as the book “zeroth” of Poena Damni, traces the transformation of coercion from sacrificial and juridical structures to the cybernetic systems of the present. Published in Italian by Il Saggiatore as Finché la vittima non sarà nostra, it will appear in English on 23 February 2027 from Indirect Books, translated from the Greek by Andrew Barrett.
