True Love (good quality version)

A novel, a Greek one. On love and truth.

«True Love» (Τrue Love, Topos books 2008 / www.toposbooks.gr), is a cruel game of love liaisons in the era of social networks. It is entertaining to the reader but often dangerous for the book's main characters, -- echoing «Dangerous Liaisons» by Laclos. It is a contemporary satire of nowadays erotic morals, with most characters in the middle of an existential crisis. The writer Mimis, his friend Sofia, the advertisement manager Kiki, the graphic designer Dina, Mimis's friend, Stelios, hairdresser Daisy, and police officer Porfiris clash with each other, showing no mercy, because they all lack the same valuable thing -- which they vainly try to find in the wrong places: love.

«True Love» is unfulfilled love from a men's point of view. It is the longing for a strong relationship from a women's point of view. It is the desperate quest for the Meaning of Life, in and out of a couple's life: The long ago perished dreams of May '68.

The theme of «True Love» sounds like a romance story. But it's not. Its romanticism is subversive and the known conventions of the genre can only be read as completely farcical.

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Film & Animation

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• Aris Marangopoulos
• True Love
• Romance