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THE PASSPORT AND OTHER SELECTED SHORT STORIES
(. . .) Samarakis's short stories were equally well received at home and abroad, and this collection brings together eight of his finest stories including "The Last Participation", "Mama", "The Knife", and "The Passport" which he wrote during the period of the Dictatorship of 1967 - 75 when he was denied a passport to travel abroad. (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)...
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SIX NIGHTS ON THE ACROPOLIS
One man. Two women. A group of free-thinking friends. Love. Poetry. Mysticism. A saga of sexual adventure and a tale of artistic maturation played out in the streets, brothels, and tavernas of Athens and on an island with deserted caves and rocky seashores. A portrait of Athens, seething with refugees after the Asia Minor Catastrophe of 1922, populated by a host of minor characters adding comic relief and a hauntingly real sense of time and place. (From the publisher)...
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LIFE IN THE TOMB
«Life in the tomb has moments of great literary beauty and of more than one kind of literary power. In 1917, Myrivilis was twenty-five. "Before I entered the trenches I had not the slightest inkling of life's true worth. From now on, however, I shall savour its moments one by one... This... truthful fiction... [makes] one see... It is antiheroic and completely convincing» (Peter Levi), «[Peter Bien] has turned a Greek masterpiece into something not much less than an English one» (C.M. Woodhouse, Times Literary Supplement)....
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THE COLLECTED POEMS OF NIKOS KAVADIAS (ΔΙΓΛΩΣΣΗ ΕΚΔΟΣΗ)
It is from the open sea's horizon that he draws his inspiration. The anchor, the fo'c'sle, the marabou and brothels in various exotic countries, excite his imagination to the point that the world of the sea becomes a metaphor for his poetic philosophy. (. . .) His erotic ideal is Fata Morgana, a beautiful woman in Celtic myth, heralding disaster; just like the sea that seduces and drowns. Kavadias turned his profession into poetry. Does this explain the unique charm of his poetry? It certainly suggests the added difficulty that it must hav...
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A CENTURY OF GREEK POETRY, 1900-2000
This volume is an offering by four American translators no one of whom is a native speaker of Greek but each of whom has discovered the riches of the modern Greek language not so much in school as owing to long familiarity with Greece, its people, and its literature. The poems collected here in translation constitute our thanks to twentieth-century Greek poets for giving us so very much. Our offering is meant, however, to honor not just twentieth-century practitioners but the entire corpus of Greek poetry. Individual poets do not exist alo...
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THE GENOCIDE OF THE GREEKS IN TURKEY
In March of 1921, journalist Kostas Faltaits arrived in Asia Minor (today's Turkey) sent by newspaper Embros to coven Greece's movements in the Greco-Turkish War. By the time he arrived in the region of Nicomedia (today's Izmit) -a region inhabited by a large number of Greek, Armenian and Circassian communities- Kemalist forces had set fire to many of the villages, leaving behind a trail of death and destruction. Faltaits came face to face with the fleeing survivors of these massacres, and was able to collect these valuable and graphic eye...
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ANGELIC AND BLACK
The authors presented in this anthology are representative of contemporary Greek literature in some of its most fundamental and characteristic trends. Coming from all generations and age-groups and covering a wide range of stylistic experimentation and thematic concerns, they reveal the way in which Greek authors in the 21st century are seeking to find their path, while orienting and also adapting themselves to the requirements of an age which more and more appears to regard the local as being inseparable from the universal and the nationa...
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BEYOND THE BROKEN STATUES
[...] In the century represented by these stories - roughly 1870 to 1970 - Greece produced two Nobel laureates in literature, George Seferis and Odysseas Elytis. It also produced at least three others - Kostis Palamas, Nikos Kazantzakis, and Yannis Ritsos (not to mention a fourth who lived in Egypt, Constantine Cavafy - whose stature was grand enough for a Novel Prize). Interestingly, with the exception of Kazantzakis, all of these figures were poets. The marvelous literary renaissance enjoyed by Greece in the twentieth century [...] was s...
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THE POWER OF THE DARK GOD
The relationship between a successful director of Greek tragedy, a young actress and Euripides might be obvious if it wasn't so confusing. If, that is, the director didn't regard his production of the Bacchae as being his last, if the young actress wasn't basically untalented, and if Euripides didn't make his appearance on stage as a ghost during the play's performance. With the pace of a thriller, this unusual existential novel by Takis Theodoropoulos weaves the threads of a story in which, against the background of a production of the Ba...
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