"The Bronze Age"

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Bronze Age is a novel by Rodi Rufus, published in 1960.

Information
The Bronze Age is inspired by the Cypriot race. He has as his subtitle The novel of the Sunday Struggle. He has the character of witnessing, because his author worked as a diplomatic officer in Cyprus, at the Greek consulate of Nicosia for two years.
The title of the novel comes from a work by Rodin and the author chose it in order to demonstrate the strength and value of the new generation.

Case
His main hero is professor of literature Alexis Balafaras recounts his life through his diary which he reads two of his friendly faces, the author and Daisy on the eve of his hanging. Balafas has participated in the Cypriot race.

Technical characteristics
Rufus attempts to combine two narrative species, the chronicle and the novel. In the Bronze Age there are persons who have also appeared in the novel trilogy Chronicle of a crusade Alexis, Zeus secretary at the Greek consulate—the legendary form of the author himself, Sylvia Plakwood and Daisy.

The Review
Criticism focused on the material of this political novel. He was criticized for his ideological political bias, while his attempt to create convincing novel heroes was considered unsuccessful. Argyriou writes about the faces of the work: "Balafaras would perhaps be as a man likely, if he were beside things and not within things, but he is not a novel pianist. [...] Sylvie a Blackwood [...] needs to be assumed as a human case. Daisy, nor the applications of depth psychology[. .. nor does high selflessness [...] make her an existing person[. .. ]What still required a novel of the Cypriot race? But fantasies of Cyprus itself, its living material, what it did and did." Sachinis instead estimates that "behind the fictitious names of his faces are people who hide real. But the gift of their novelist is transformed into genuine novel figures" In the positives of the project are grace and comfort in narrative and dialogue, clarity and clarity in expression. It moves at the borderline of meditation and lyrical poem. Nephelia is the rendering of events and incidents, while the vindication of the Greek Cypriot struggle is not exaggerated. Heroes are not extraordinary people but ordinary everyday people. The narrative balances between the hero's love with his beloved Sylvia and the liberation struggle.
For Argyriou, the best pieces of the novel are two intermediate pieces , kind of intermedes, operate as erotic shots, "developed as from a bon viveur have honesty and poetry"
For Raytopoulos, asithism and a secret mood dominate. The central hero is not classy in the same position as that of Rodi Rufus, but bears the same ideology and ideology