The trilogy has developed gradually as a work in progress in the course of thirty years. In 1992, Lyacos set about writing a trilogy under the collective name Poena Damni, referring to the hardest trial the condemned souls in Hell have to endure, i.e. He is currently based in Berlin and Athens. He studied philosophy at University College London with analytical philosophers Ted Honderich and Tim Crane focusing on Epistemology and Metaphysics, Ancient Greek philosophy and Wittgenstein. Lyacos was born and raised in Athens where he studied Law. An Evening with Dimitris Lyacos Nick Courtright Katy Chrisler at Malvern Books pt 2.Poena Damni has been construed as an "allegory of unhappiness" together with works of authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Thomas Pynchon while being considered, at the same time, a major exponent of the postmodern sublime and one of the most important anti-utopian works of the 21st century. Lyacos’s characters are always at a distance from society as such, fugitives, like the narrator of Z213: Exit, outcasts in a dystopian hinterland like the characters in With the People from the Bridge, or marooned, like the protagonist of The First Death whose struggle for survival unfolds on a desert-like island. Despite its size - the overall trilogy counts no more than two hundred pages - Poena Damni took over a period of thirty years to complete, with the individual books revised and republished in different editions during this period and arranged around a cluster of concepts including the scapegoat, the quest, the return of the dead, redemption, physical suffering, mental illness. Renowned for its genre-defying form and the avant-garde combination of themes from literary tradition with elements from ritual, religion, philosophy and anthropology, Lyacos’s work reexamines grand narratives in the context of some of the enduring motifs of the Western Canon. He is the author of the Poena Damni trilogy. Dimitris Lyacos (Greek: Δημήτρης Λυάκος born October 19, 1966) is a contemporary Greek poet and playwright.
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