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(P/B) The Selected Poems of Cavafy
C. P. Cavafy is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a magical interior world through lyrical evocations of remembered passions, imagined monologues and dramatic retellings of his native Alexandria's ancient past. Figures from antiquity speak with telling interruptions from the author in such poems as 'Anna Comnena' and 'You did not understand', while precise moments of history are seen with a sense of foreboding, as in 'Ides of March', 'The God Abandoning Antony' and 'Nero's Deadline...
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CAVAFY: SELECTED POEMS
Cavafy is by far the most translated and most well-known Greek poet internationally. His work exists in multiple translations in a wide range of languages and major 20th-century poets as diverse as Auden, Brecht, Brodsky, Durrell, Milosz and Montale have all paid tribute to Cavafy, either by writing poems "in the style of Cavafy", or by openly admitting their debt to his poetry in their own work. Whether his subject matter is historical, philosophical or sensual, Cavafy's unique poetic voice is always recognizable by its ironical, suave, ...
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THE AXION ESTI
When Odysseus Elytis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy's citation singled out The Axion Esti, first published in 1959, as 'one of twentieth-century literature's most concentrated and richly faceted poems.' It can be seen both as a secular oratorio, reflecting the Greek heritage and the country's revolutionary spirit, and also as a kind of autobiography, in which the spiritual roots of the poet's very individual sensibility are set in the wider philosophical context of the Greek tradition. In his evocation of e...
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THE LAST TEMPTATION
Kazantzakis's classic novel, blacklisted by the Vatican, filmed by Scorsese, has been labelled heretical, blasphemous, and also a masterpiece. His Christ is an epic conception, wholly original. "When Kazantzakis describes the raising of Lazarus, the early life of Mary Magdalene, the domestic lives of Martha and Mary, it is as if an old box of lantern slides had suddenly become a moving picture. The author has achieved a new and moving interpretation of a truly human Christ." -- Times Literary Supplement (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) Cavafy Poems
In 2009 Knopf published a new translation of Cavafy's Complete Poems by the brilliant and award-winning writer and scholar Daniel Mendelsohn. Now Mendelsohn has made a selection of the poet's best-loved works for a Pocket Poets edition, including such favorites as "Waiting for the Barbarians," "Ithaca," and "The God Abandons Antony." Whether advising Odysseus as he returns home to Ithaca or portraying a doomed Marc Antony on the eve of his death, Cavafy's poems make the historic profoundly and movingly personal. A towering figure of twenti...
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ON THE GREEK STYLE
This is the first collection of the essays of George Seferis to be published in English. The selection was made by Seferis himself, drawing upon his prose work written over a period of thirty years. Seferis was a classicist and a humanist, a man of modern sensibility imbued with a deep respect for Mediterranean tradition. He is present in all these aspects in his essays. When he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963, the citation spoke of "his eminent lyrical writings inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of cultur...
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MARIOS HAKKAS: HEROES' SHRINE FOR SALE
"Kesariani, once you were a star; for a moment you shone in the firmament and then, you vanished for ever into the void of history... There's nothing left. Now you're plastering the last traces of gunshots on your forehead, like an old dog licking its wounds, where the scar has healed." Marios Hakkas lived almost all his tragically short life close to the Athenian neighbourhood of Kesariani, in the shadow of Mount Hymettos. Throughout the Nazi Occupation of Greece, this district was the symbol of Greek Resistance and Hakkas' stories are in...
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NOVEL AND OTHER POEMS
Often compared during his lifetime to T.S. Eliot, whose work he translated and introduced to Greece, George Seferis is noted for his spare, laconic, dense and allusive verse in the Modernist idiom of the first half of the 20th century. At once intensely Greek and a cosmopolitan of his time (he was a career-diplomat as well as a poet), Seferis better than any other writer expresses the dilemma experienced by his countrymen then and now: how to be at once Greek and modern. The translations that make up this volume are the fruit of more than ...
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THE GREAT CHIMERA
Eager to flee the parochialism of her French upbringing, and a painful family past, the young and beautiful Marina falls in love with a seductive Greek sea-captain she meets at the port of Rouen. She follows him to the Aegean island of Syros to begin a new life as a married woman in the home of her formidable mother-in-law. Enchanted by the beauty of her surroundings, and fascinated by her husband's erudite younger brother, she aspires to learn all she can about contemporary Greek culture and live up to the ideals of her classical educatio...
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LA GRANDE CHIMERE
Une jeune Francaise s'eprend d'un capitaine grec rencontre dans le port de sa ville natale, Rouen, I'epouse et va vivre dans son ile de Syros. Passionnee par la langue et la litterature de la Grece ancienne aux-quelles elle a consacre ses etudes, elle decouvre sa patrie d'adoption avec un emerveillement qui va peu a peu ceder sa place a la disillusion puis au desespoir. Dans cette replique grecque de Madame Bovary, Karagatsis emprunte a son premier roman, "Le colonel Liapkine", l'idee d'un personnage principal confronte a I'expatriation. D...
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THE OTHER ALEXANDER
First published in the 1950s to international acclaim, Margarita Liberaki's allegorical novel, "The Other Alexander", speaks to the opposing forces inherent in human nature. This exquisite poetic drama reenacts Greek tragedy in its evocation of a country riven by civil war and a family divided against itself. A tyrannical father leads a double life; he has two families and gives the same first names to both sets of children. In an atmosphere of increasing unease and mistrust, the half-siblings meet, love, hate, and betray one another. Embr...
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(P/B) ZORBA THE GREEK
Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis' most popular and enduring novel, has its origins in the author's own experiences of mining and harvesting in the Peleponnesus in the 1920s. His swashbuckling hero has its legions of literary fans across the world and his adventures are as exhilarating and havoc-making now as they were on first publication in the 1950s. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) UNCLE PETROS AND GOLDBACH'S CONJECTURE
Uncle Petros is a family joke. An ageing recluse, he lives alone in a suburb of Athens, playing chess and tending to his garden. If you didn't know better, you'd surely think he was one of life's failures. But his young nephew suspects otherwise. For Uncle Petros, he discovers, was once a celebrated mathematician, brilliant and foolhardy enough to stake everything on solving a problem that had defied all attempts at proof for nearly three centuries - Goldbach's Conjecture. His quest brings him into contact with some of the century's greate...
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CAVAFIS: SELECCION DE POEMAS
ΣΤΟ ΠΛΗΚΤΙΚΟ ΧΩΡΙΟ Στο πληκτικό χωριό που εργάζεται - υπάλληλος σ' ένα κατάστημα εμπορικό νεότατος - και που αναμένει ακόμη δυο τρεις μήνες να περάσουν, ακόμη δυο τρεις μήνες για να λιγοστέψουν η δουλειές, κ' έτσι να μεταβεί στην πόλιν να ριχθεί στην κίνησι και στην διασκέδασιν ευθύς στο πληκτικό χωριό όπου αναμένει - έπεσε στο κρεββάτι απόψι ερωτοπαθής, όλ' η νεότης του στον σαρκικό πόθο αναμένη, εις έντασιν ωραίαν όλ' η ωραία νεότης του. Και μες στον ύπνον η ηδονή προσήλθε μέσα στον ύπνο βλέπει κ' έχει την μορφή, την σάρκα που ήθελε.....
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KONSTANTINOS KAVAFIS: POESIE SCELTE (ΔΙΓΛΩΣΣΗ ΕΚΔΟΣΗ, ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ-ΙΤΑΛΙΚΑ)
Consacrato come una delle voci poetiche piu rappresentative della Grecia e piu significative della letteratura del Ventesimo secolo, Kavafis e di gran lunga il poeta greco piu tradotto. La sua opera ha sedotto scrittori e intellettuali in tutto il mondo, che hanno studiato o tradotto Kavafis o dialogato con la sua poesia, e oggi continua ad affascinare i lettori di ogni lingua. (L' edizione) QUANTO PUOI Benche della tua vita non possa fare come vuoi, fa' questo sforzo almeno quanto puoi: evita di degradarla con il commercio frequente del ...
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LOXANDRA
Loxandra of "big arched feet and slim ankles", of "big hands like those of a patriarch? hands for kissing, fingers long and shapely, made to bless and to smell of mahlepi and incense, hands made for giving", was born, it is said, in the times of Abdul-Medjid I, the 31st Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, who reigned from 1839 to 1861. Life for the Greeks of Constantinople was relatively untroubled then. The 19th century was the time of reforms which established, on paper at least, the freedom of belief and equality of all citizens of the Empire...
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CONSTANTIN CAVAFIS: NOTES DE POETIQUE ET DE MORALE
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THE FLAW
A man is seized from his afternoon drink at the Cafe Sport by two agents of the Regime -though what exactly he is suspected of we do not know, and neither, apparently, does he. What follows is a journey by car toward Special Branch Headquarters, and the interrogation that undoubtedly awaits him there. With their destination approaching, oppressed and oppressor come face to face with their deepest human feeling, locked in a game of psychological skill. As the plot slowly unravels, so, too, do its main players. Part thriller and part politic...
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ΩΡΑΙΟΣ ΣΑΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΑΣ
Ο Νίκος Εγγονόπουλος, όπως και οι περισσότεροι Έλληνες υπερρεαλιστές ποιητές, μόνο επιλεκτικά και κατά κάποιο τρόπο περιστασιακά έχει μεταφραστεί στα αγγλικά (βλ. Παράρτημα, σελ. 233). Οι λόγοι, πιστεύω, βασίζονται λιγότερο σε αξιολογικά κριτήρια και περισσότερο στις δυσκολίες που ενέχει η μετάφραση υπερρεαλιστικής ποίησης. Στην ποίηση του Εγγονόπουλου βρίσκουμε κοινά και εμφανή στοιχεία καθώς και χαρακτηριστικά του υπερρεαλισμού -εικόνες αιφνιδιαστικές, αντιφατικές και λογικά ασύνδετες φράσεις, απροσδόκητες μεταφορές, την απουσία παρομοιώ...
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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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