The second volume of a grand circular work that belongs to the collection of analogous novelistic murals by Balzac and Zola.
The trilogy by Karagatsis - which includes "Kozampasis of Kastropyrgos," "Lost and Gained Blood," and "The Last of Michalos" - was described by him as "the biological and social history of a middle-class Greek family from 1821 until today."
In the first volume of the trilogy, Karagatsis established a vivid central hero, Michalos Rousis, the renowned Kozampasis, who became a renegade because he was governed by a sense of hedonism.
Now in "Lost Blood," the same Rousis is completed as a figure that sprang from the world of the great uprising of '21.
In this work, Karagatsis does not place emphasis on one or two heroes: he brings to life an entire - and extremely significant - era. The Revolution in the pages of this book is not approached in a shortsighted manner, but through the prism of life; a prism that is certain, magnifying, and unyielding to any ulterior motive.
Among the most representative works of Karagatsis.
