The document provides background information about the Greek author Demosthenes Voutyras and summarizes his short story "Pararlama". The story is about a marginalized factory worker named Farmas who feels unseen by his colleagues. To get attention and provoke a reaction, Farmas secretly writes an unknown word, "Pararlama", on the factory walls at night. This action frightens his coworkers and Farmas enjoys watching them speculate about who wrote it. In the end, Farmas remains an outsider, unable to change his circumstances.

1. 2o GEL EDESSAS
GREECE

2. Pararlama

3. A few words about the author…

4. Demosthenes Voutyras
1872-1958

5. Τhe author of
our short story
“Pararlama”
was born in
Constantinople
in 1872

6. Later he settled with his family
in Piraeus, where he lived a
large part of his life.

7. In his stories, he describes the
psychology of deprived or failed people
who live fatally ungrateful lives and do
not belong to an organized society

8. The short story

9. In “Pararlama” our
main hero, Farmas,
is an eccentric
person, representing
all the marginalized
people

10. Farmas works
in a factory,
where no one
cares and
everyone walks
around him

11. Trying to arouse
interest and being
influenced by a
conversation he
overhears in a tavern
full of hatred for
people, he comes up
with a plan to scare
his colleagues

12. So he thinks of
an unknown,
meaningless word,
“Pararlama”
which he writes
on the walls of his
workplace, every
night, for three
consecutive nights,
when everyone
is asleep

13. With this action, Farmas wants to
leave his mark and feel that he is
capable of provoking reactions

14. Indeed, his
Incomprehensible
word frightens
people and he
enjoys watching
his colleagues
talking about a
ghost that struck
them at night

15. His success is based on the fear
he causes to others and it is only
personal satisfaction

16. At the end of the story, our
hero cannot reverse either the
flow of things or the conditions
of his work and life

17. He remains on the
sidelines of his life
as an outcast

18. THE END

19. By Giannis Karagiannis