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The Greek House with Christian Brechneff
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 6:30 - 8 p.m.
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Margaret Liebman Berger Forum
Please join us as Christian Brechneff reads from his recently released
memoir, *The Greek House: The Story of a Painter’s Love Affair with the
Island of Sifnos*, on Wednesday, June 26th, at 6:30 p.m. in the Margaret
Liebman Berger Forum ( 2nd Floor, Room 227).
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When Christian Brechneff first set foot on the Greek island of Sifnos, it
was the spring of 1972 and he was a twenty-one-year-old painter searching
for artistic inspiration and a quiet place to work. There, this Swiss child
of Russian émigrés, adrift and confused about his sexuality, found
something extraordinary. In Sifnos, he found a muse, a subject he was to
paint for years, and a sanctuary.
In *The Greek House*, Brechneff tells a funny, touching narrative
about his relationship to Sifnos, writing with warmth about its
unforgettable residents and the house he bought in a hilltop farm village.
This is the story of how he fell in love with Greece, and how it became a
haven from the complexities of his life in Western Europe and New York. It
is the story of his village and of the island during the thirty-odd years
he owned the house—from a time when there were barely any roads, to the
arrival of the modern world with its tourists and high-speed boats and the
euro. And it is the story of the end of the love affair—how the island
changed and he changed, how he discovered he had outgrown Sifnos, or
couldn’t grow there anymore.
*The Greek House* is a celebration of place and an honest narrative of
self-discovery. In its pages, a naïve and inexperienced young man comes
into his own. Weaving himself into the life of the island, painting it year
after year, he finds a place he can call home.
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