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Ch. 4 compares Greek writer Sotiris Dimitriou's short stories on the decadence of European bodies and anxieties about social reproduction with those of the nineteenth-century author Alexandros Papadiamandis, to trace the links between realist representation and narration of violence, migration, and commodification of bodies.