The Hospitality to the Demon (French edition) by Constantin Alexandrakis

📖 A Literary Dive into the Darkness of Invisible Violence

Shortly after the birth of his daughter, "the Father", the narrator of Hospitality to the Demon, is confronted by the memory of abuse suffered in childhood. Overwhelmed by the fear of repetition, he embarks on a singular and painful project: to map the Great Continent of Sexual Violence.

This inner and symbolic journey spans six years, between personal quest and societal analysis, raw lucidity and fantasized visions.

🧭 A Story Both Intimate, Political, and Poetic

✔️ A male narrator confronted with abuse and buried memory
✔️ A reflection on domination, power, and masculinity
✔️ A literary approach that is non-victimizing, deeply human
✔️ A powerful language, between introspection, provocation, and poetry

🧠 A Literary Territory Between the Real and the Imaginary

In an imaginary Denmark, a mental and symbolic space, Constantin Alexandrakis constructs a narrative where trauma is not treated as a fixed fact, but as a shifting, uncertain, and incandescent matter.

This text questions:
✅ Traumatic memory
✅ The courage to face the unspeakable
✅ The role of fathers and transmission
✅ The male experience of violence

✍️ A Radical and Courageous Writing

With Hospitality to the Demon, the author joins a line of powerful and uncomfortable texts, where language is a tool of truth and survival.

As Neige Sinno writes in her note:

"Since it is about that, braving, facing the demons. Those from outside and those from within."

This book is also a literary act of bravery, to be read as a poetic, political, and existential gesture.

📖 Book Characteristics:

• Title: The Demon’s Hospitality
• Author: Constantin Alexandrakis
• Publisher: Verticales
• Collection: Verticales
• Publication Date: January 9, 2025
• Format: Paperback
• Number of Pages: 240
• Dimensions: 20.5 x 14 x 1.9 cm
• Weight: 302 g
• Language: French
• ISBN: 978-2-07-304792-2
• EAN13: 9782073047922