Dimitris Lyacos’s Poena Damni trilogy is one of the best-selling and most highly regarded works of contemporary European literature in translation. Renowned for combining, in a genre-defying form, themes from literary tradition with elements from ritual, religion, philosophy and anthropology, Poena Damni reexamines grand narratives in the context of some of the enduring motifs of the Western Canon, most notably violence, mental illness, the scapegoat and the return of the dead. Developed as a work in progress over the course of three decades, the trilogy has been translated in more than 20 languages and has given rise to musical, visual and theatre projects. Chapters D and G from the trilogy’s prequel Until the Victim Becomes our Own were out in Image and MAYDAY while chapter L is forthcoming in River Styx. A new interview with Lyacos (Violence and its Other) has recently appeared in The Common.