A CORNER OF PARADISE

«A corner of paradise», for the great writer Alexandros Papadiamantis, is not the island of Skiathos, which he yearns for, nor Athens in 1896 which suffocates him. It is the place where the dead travel, where children forgive the father that tried to drown them, and where barren women give birth. There, in the hands of the Moslem, a ney is not a ney, but the creaking of the door to Paradise, a humble room containing the whole world, and Saints holding up the Acropolis. It is, in other words, any place on which a saintly glance has fallen. His glance.