Zyranna Zateli's guest appearances

Zyranna Zateli

Sherds Podcast

Octavia Butler

Vernon Lee

Algernon Blackwood

Riddley Walker

Russell Hoban

Arthur Machen

Rebecca Lloyd

Anna Kavan

Nan Shepherd

Dorothy Scarborough

Bruno Jasieński

Orest Somov

Edogawa Rampo

Ronald Fraser

Ghada Samman

OwlTail

In this episode, we look at Zyranna Zateli's At Twilight They Return: a Novel in Ten Tales (1993), translated by David Connolly.  Set during the final decades of the 19th century, the novel tells the vivid and meandering history of several generations of a single family in northern Greece.  As the modern world begins encroach upon the ancient, the border between the mythic and the real becomes porous, and in Zateli's hands, both are able to exist in a perpetual twilight.Over the course of our discussion, we consider the transitional period of the book's setting, the symbolism of wolves, and examine Zateli's curious weaving together of folklore and mythology. 

In this episode, we look at Zyranna Zateli's At Twilight They Return: a Novel in Ten Tales (1993), translated by David Connolly.  Set during the final decades of the 19th century, the novel tells the vivid and meandering history of several generations of a single family in northern Greece.  As the modern world begins encroach upon the ancient, the border between the mythic and the real becomes porous, and in Zateli's hands, both are able to exist in a perpetual twilight.Over the course of our discussion, we consider the transitional period of the book's setting, the symbolism of wolves, and examine Zateli's curious weaving together of folklore and mythology.

#4 At Twilight They Return by Zyranna Zateli