MOTHER THESSALONIKI

Παρουσίαση

Α nice book this about the mother city. It consists of pieces written by Nikos Gabriel Pentzikis. Most modern of Greek writers, most distinctly Greek, Pentzikis assembles his pieces so that, beginning in alienation, with the recalcitrance and transience of things, the casual cruelties of space and time, they reach out, through the luminous Orthodox immanences of the past, the reverberations of historical memory, towards an inclusive density of present experience. And the wonder lies, the beauty, in the way that we sense, looming in the endlessly modulating density of style, the Orthodox presence of the city. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

City and individual
The shops
Road-widening
Mansion boundaries
Remembrance of the dead
By way of registration
Landscape of being
Inner city
Return
Thessaloniki and life
Clouds and reminiscences
View from the northwest
Panorama and history
Picturesque scenes
Liberty Square
Mother Thessaloniki
The church of the Protector