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(P/B) THE BARBARIANS ARRIVE TODAY
Expertly translated from Modern Greek, this edition presents Cavafy's finest poems, short creative prose and autobiographical writings, offering unique insights into his life's work. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Constantine Petrou Cavafy (1863-1933) was a minor civil servant who self-published and distributed his poems among friends; he is now regarded as one of the most significant poets of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, an influence on writers across generations and languages. The broad, rich world of the Mediterranean ...
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Cronaca di una citta
In "Cronaca di una citta" assoluta protagonista e la gente di Retimno, nell'isola di Creta. La citta natale dell'autore e ritratta alla maniera di una natura morta nel periodo seguito alia fine della prima guerra mondiale e dopo lo scambio di popolazioni tra Grecia e Turchia, nel 1923. Davanti agli occhi del lettore sfila una carrellata di tipi umani: artigiani, commercianti, contadini, greci e turchi, musulmani e ortodossi, che compongono il cuore di una citta (ma anche di un Paese intero) in cui il vecchio e scomparso ma il nuovo appare ...
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Η ΝΕΟΤΡΟΠΗ ΕΚΔΟΧΗ ΤΗΣ ΜΝΗΜΗΣ
"Το δέντρο θα συσπείρωνε κόσμο κάτω από τη σκιά του. Και αυτή η λαϊκή ψυχαγωγία δεν ήταν αμελητέα για οποιαδήποτε μορφή εξουσίας. Είχε ποτέ ο κολίγος στην αυλή του κανένα δέντρο; Άλλωστε ο θεσσαλικός κάμπος με τους πραγματικούς ανθρώπους δε ταίριαζε τότε με τη σκέψη και τη νοοτροπία των αφεντάδων του. Τώρα τα πράματα έχουν κάπως αλλάξει". (Από την έκδοση) "The tree would bring people together under its shade. And this popular amusement was not insignificant for any form of authority. Did the tenant farmer ever have a tree in his courtyard...
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THE BOUNDLESS GARDEN (VOLUME ONE)
(. . .) The stories presented in this selection encompass the main and universal themes that best exemplify his work. In them he records and recreates that modern Greek experience as it was lived in its many perspectives - displacement, emigration, home-coming, estrangement, exile, attempts to reclaim lost innocence, visions of Paradise, the daily struggle for survival - and explores the souls of men and women as they succumbed to or struggled against the power of evil and dealt with life's ambiguities. Within these themes Papadiamantis al...
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(P/B) THE BRAZEN PLAGIARIST
Winner of the 2014 Greek National Translation Prize. Kiki Dimoula's poetry - the most praised and prized in contemporary Greek literature - is a paradox, both mysteriously intricate and widely popular. Her magic lens defamiliarizes all that is familiar, compressing distances between far-flung realms, conflating concrete and abstract, literal and metaphorical, physical and metaphysical. Exacting and oracular at once, Dimoula superimposes absurdity on rationality, caustic irony on dark melancholy. This first English translation of a wide se...
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(P/B) THE HISTORY OF A VENDETTA
A magical, intricate tale, rich in peasant myth and narrated in the detached yet ultimately moving style of a modern Herodotus....
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(P/B) MILTOS SACHTOURIS POEMS (1945-1971)
Karen Emmerich's poignant, eloquent versions of Sachtouris reveal not only the disturbing intensity of the original but also a remarkable diction and poetic pacing of her own. - HAROLD BLOOM I would say, 'Cut these poems and they'll bleed,' but they are already bleeding - a poet's evidence of world and civil wars, a military junta and dictatorship. We might call these poems noir, in which the poet manages to fashion a bloody and beautiful reflection of strange times. In this important translation, each poem is a house made of flesh, and w...
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C.P. CAVAFY: COLLECTED POEMS
C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern European literature. This revised bilingual edition of Collected Poems offers the reader the original Greek texts facing what are now recognized as the standard English translations of Cavafy's poetry. It is this translation that best captures...
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SERENITY
Serenity follows the journey of a group of Greek refugees who were displaced from their homeland in Asia Minor and settled in the summer of 1923 in a desolate corner of the coast, near Athens. Told in the author's characteristic sparse, lyrical style and inspired by his own experience of migration, it details their hatred of war, their love for the nature surrounding them, the hostility of their new neighbours and their struggle to find meaning as they adapt to a new life. Though published in 1937, Serenity is a timely evocation of the ete...
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ICONOSTASIS OF ANONYMOUS SAINTS (VOLUME 2)
This work of Ritsos, is it a novel with an emphatic question-mark added by the poet himself? Is it a roman fleuve in the sense of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past? Is it a wild prose-poetic fling in a "sarcastic climate"? Or is it an autobiography of Greece's most human poet, whom Aragon hailed as the "greatest poet of his time"? And what about the strange title? How are the established Orthodox saints, traditionally decorating the panels near the altar, how are they replaced by anonymous human beings? - everyday people from Ritsos' ne...
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(P/B) C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern European literature. Here is an extensively revised edition of the acclaimed translations of Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, which capture Cavafy's mixture of formal and idiomatic use of language and preserve the immediacy of his frank trea...
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(P/B) VOICES OF MODERN GREECE
This anthology is composed of recently revised translations selected from the five volumes of work by major poets of modern Greece offered by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard during the past two decades. The poems chosen are those that translate most successfully into English and that are also representative of the best work of the original poets. C. P. Cavafy and Angelos Sikelianos are major poets of the first half of the twentieth century. George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis, who followed them, both won the Nobel Prize in literature. Nik...
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UNE FEMME A LA MER
Bien qu'il ait passe I'essentiel de sa vie a Athenes, ou il vecut chichement de la traduction litteraire d'ecrivains surtout anglais et frangais, Alexandre Papadiamantis (1851 - 1911) a choisi Skiathos, son ile natale, ou il vecut jusqu'a vingt-trois ans et ou il revint se retirer deux ans avant sa mort, pour cadre de la plupart de ses cent quatre-vingts nouvelles. La nostalgie qui I'y attache donne a ses recits une tendresse et une authenticity qui n'empechent nullement un regard lucide sur les maux qui frappent cette petite societe. Mais...
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THE BLIND MAN WITH THE LAMP
Tasos Leivaditis (1922-1988) is one of the unacknowledged greats of Modern Greek literature. Not only is he unacknowledged in the English-speaking world, largely because nearly all of his writing remains untranslated, but he also has limited recognition within modern Greek literary circles, where he is often overshadowed by twentieth-century giants such as Cavafy, Seferis, Elytis, Ritsos and Kazantzakis, who have become established names in the literary world at large. The Blind Man with the Lamp, originally published in Greek in 1983, is ...
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Words in order
These are some words i put in order. I hope they bring some order in your life... Or the right amount of chaos. [From the publisher]...
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ΚΑΒΑΦΗΣ (ΔΙΓΛΩΣΣΟ)
Δεν έχω σήμερα κεφάλι για δουλειά.- Πλην τούτο, Μέβη, κάλλιο να το πεις που ό, τι κι αν λεν οι άλλοι σοφισταί, εγώ τον παραδέχομαι τον Λάμονα για πρώτο της Συρίας ποιητή. [Από την έκδοση]...
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THE DELPHIC ENDEAVOUR
Sikelianos' vision for a new world order based on age-old and universal spiritual principles impacted his entire work as poet, playwright and essayist. And like every true visionary, he had specific and practical proposals, which he set out in his writings, as to how his vision might be realised. Contained in this volume is a selection of these writings translated into English for the first time. His vision arose as an answer and solution to mankind's social and political problems in the troubled times in which he lived. He saw behind the ...
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GIOCONDA
A love born during the years of the Occupation reaches a peak of intensity. As the two young people grow up, in love, thousands of people are dying of hunger, the innocent are being tortured and patriots executed. Love does not triumph, however, but is brought to an end. The Germans begin to round up the Jews, including Gioconda ... A true story, of one of the most beautiful but tragic adolescent experiences. (From the publisher)...
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CONSTANTIN THEOTOKIS: LE PEINTRE D' APHRODITE

FEY FOLK
Generally recognized as one of the foremost Greek prose writers of the modern period, Alexandros Papadiamandis holds a special place in the history of modern Greek letters, but also in the heart of the ordinary Greek reader. "Fey Folk" is characteristic of Papadiamandis's work. Its characters are quaint, simple-hearted folk living their humble lives in accordance with centuries-old traditions and customs, delightfully described by Papadiamandis with both reverence and humour. The setting is the hinterland of his native island of Skiathos w...
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