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With the People from the Bridge
''With the People from the Bridge'' (Greek: ''Με τους ανθρώπους από τη γέφυρα'') is the second book of the ''Poena Damni'' trilogy by Greek author Dimitris Lyacos.
==Synopsis==
''With the People from the Bridge'' follows the main line of narrative of ''Z213: Exit'', the first book of the Poena Damni trilogy. The work opens with a first-person account of the narrator of ''Z213: Exit'', who recounts his arrival at a derelict train station named Nichtovo〔Mallory Smart, http://maudlinhouse.tumblr.com/post/113470405890/review-for-with-the-people-from-the-bridge〕 in search of a place where, he has been told, an improvised performance is being staged by, what appear to be, a band of social outcasts. The narrator joins the few members of the audience present and goes on to record in his journal the setting as well as the events taking place "on stage” as the performance is about to begin.〔Max Goodwin Brown, http://www.versaljournal.org/blog/2015/3/12/with-the-people-from-the-bridge-by-dimitris-lyacos〕 A group of four women in the role of a Chorus and three other protagonists (LG, NCTV, Narrator) are making their final preparations in front of a dilapidated car among machine parts and the noise of a generator. As the lights "on stage" are lowered the performance sets off with the Chorus's opening monologue followed in turn by the sequence of recitations of the other characters. The story unfolds during the timeline of a calendar day dedicated to the dead, a kind of All Souls' Day or Saturday of Souls. The plot-line originates in the Bible incident (Mark, 5:9), according to which the Gerasene demoniac begs Jesus to spare him from his torments.〔Julie Kovacs, http://exercisebowler.com/issue21.htm〕 In the play enacted, LG assumes and expands on the role of the demoniac, recounting his past condition and describing how he has ended up taking residence in a cemetery. In a kind of simultaneous narration, LG recounts how he has opened the grave of his deceased companion (NCTV), prompted by voices he has been hearing. He enters, finds her body inside and feels compelled to stay with her,〔 eventually making the realization that she is gradually coming back to life. Meanwhile, the Chorus are making preparations in anticipation of the yearly visit of their deceased kin and LG and NCTV eventually join them after having broken off from a crowd of revenants aroused on the occasion of the Soul Saturday. As the day comes to an end, LG and NCTV leave and become again part of the crowd they had broken off from. Despite trying to hold on to each other they are finallly absorbed in an indefinite collective of souls moving ahead and cross “the bridge between the worlds" as a Christian-like resurrection appears on the horizon.〔Judy Swann, http://portagemagazine.org/with-the-people-from-the-bridge-by-dimitris-lyacos/〕 The book concludes with the epilogue of the on-stage(internal) Narrator recounting the process by which a mob gathered in a cemetery unearths two bodies, ritually “killing” the female by driving a stake in her chest, in a manner akin to handling vampires〔 in the Slavonic tradition.
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