Mènis Koumandarèas, Captain mysteries

It is an administrative matter and it is life itself—love, friendship, innocence, morality—that is at stake. The Handsome Captain is clearly a reference to Billy Budd , the last novel by Herman Melville , a writer whom Mènis Koumandarèas translated into Greek, as well as, among others, Hermann Hesse, Lewis Carroll and Carson McCullers. Born in 1931, the writer, committed to the anti-dictatorship movement