Mythologies

Mythologies contains two of Michel Galiana's finest works the long poems Fighting Hercules and The Triumph of Hermes. MICHEL GALIANA (1933 - 1999) published a novel The Shadow Theatre (1966) similar to Voltaire's philosophical tales; two essays entitled Beyond your Homeland (1987) and Treatise on Indifference (1989) in which he proclaims that he wants no part in the collective extravagances forced on us by the state and society and extolls indifference as a virtue excluding however revolt which generates new kinds of alienation; and two collections of narratives A Trip to the West Suburbs (1991) and The Cry (1993) unfolding on the borderland between two worlds the objective one and the haunted domain which everybody may call his own and is perhaps the best part of him. His other works include The Dream in the Orchard In Memoriam (1991) and Out of a Book of Hours (1992). His brother and English translator Christian SOUCHON is a translator with the international organization OECD. He believes that only verses may translate verses and that a prose translation would be like a black and white photograph of a gorgeous colourful painting.