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ATHENS IN POEMS
Athens in Poems reveals the glorious palimpsest that is Athens mapping the city one poem at a time from the 1880s to 2010s. Walk through the streetscapes of Athens, reflect on the city's historical development and see how poetry becomes attentive to the dynamic instability of the urban space. Watch as the city is built with language and create your own imaginative map of Athens. Wander around Athens of the 1880s, imagine the circular Omonia Square of the 1930s, visit the Shooting Range of Kaisariani during the Nazi Occupation and reach the...
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THE MURDERESS
FROM ITS FIRST APPEARANCE IN 1903 "The Murderess" has been regarded as Papadiamandis's finest work. Set on his native island it tells the story of Hadoula, a widow with grown-up children, who has convinced herself that it is better little girls should leave this life when young so that they and their parents should not suffer the trials that inevitably would be inflicted on them by an inequitable society. In the throes of this misguided compassion she first murders her own granddaughter and afterwards finds herself set on a course she is u...
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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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DER KIRCHENSCHEUE
Vor 30 Jahren, auf der vertraumten Insel Skiathos, verliebte sich Kolias in Molota. Ihre Liebe wurde mit einem einzigen Kuss besiegelt. Dann wurde sie gezwungen, einen anderen zu heiraten, und er zog sich als Einsiedler in die Berge zuruck. Dennoch brachte sie das Schicksal wieder zusammen... Alexandros Papadiamantis ist ein erstrangiger Vertreter der neugriechischen Uteratur. Er reiht die Grundelemente der griechischen Identitat aneinander, stellt gleichsam die verlorene Verbindung her zwischen der byzantinischen Tradition und dem heutige...
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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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IT RUNS IN THE BLOOD
Lavinia Oswald, a humble servant to a Royal family, becomes the victim to the aftermath of the tragic death of King Arthur IV. Benedict Tippit, an investigator of sorts sent to solve the murder, suffers a similar fate. (From the publisher)...
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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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(P/B) White Reality
Mary and Blanche, two women grappling with mental instability and substance addiction, find themselves in a psychiatric institution. Their lives unfold in parallel narratives, converging in a unique psychological space where time and space are subject to their perception. Orchestrated by a young doctor named Jane, their shared psychodrama allows them to relive their past, with scenes and family members resurfacing. They become both audience and protagonist in a cathartic play of their lives, aiming for redemption. This redemption is envisi...
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Cronaca dei tre giorni
Ore 2.57 a.m. Tre carri armati muovono insieme. Il primo, che sembra parados-salmente piu grande, abbatte il grande cancello d'ingresso. La gente si dirada. In tali circostanze succede sempre cosi: o la gente si dilegua, o resta e si fa maciullare. I ragazzi cantano l'Inno Nazionale. La rivolta del Politecnico di Atene e rimasta profondamente incisa nella memoria collettiva del popolo greco come simbolo della lotta per la liberta e la democrazia. Scritta a caldo subito dopo gli eventi, la Cronaca di Kostula Mitropulu ci immerge con una scr...
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Nouvelles de ma famille
Georges Vizyinos (1849-1896) fait partie des plus grands auteurs grecs modernes. Et des plus aimes. Parallelement a son oeuvre poetique, il a laisse des textes en prose dont la qualite s'est encore bonifiee avec le temps. Aujourd'hui, on adapte ses nouvelles pour le theatre ou le cinema, on les commente, on s'en inspire, on les traduit et on les retraduit en langues etrangeres... Chacun de ses textes denote un gout puissant pour l'introspection et une profondeur psychologique remarquable, allies a une douce ironie. Tout cela fait de Vizyin...
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Junkermann
A modernist, picaresque epic, "Junkermann" recounts the life and times of its titular character, a hedonistic Finnish nobleman with a chequered past who serves as a Cossack guard in the Czar's army, flees the Bolshevik revolution, and seeks his fortune as he travels through Constantinople and finally settles in Greece. Set in the social and political turbulence of the interwar period, Vasily Karlovich Junkermann's fortunes reflect both the opportunities and dilemmas of the time. An unscrupulous character, he climbs with singular determinat...
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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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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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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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GEORGIOS VIZYINOS: DIE EINZIGE REISE SEINES LEBENS
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CONSTANTIN CAVAFIS: NOTES DE POETIQUE ET DE MORALE
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FAREWELL ANATOLIA
"Farewell Anatolia" is a tale of paradise lost and of shattered innocence; a tragic fresco of the fall of Hellenism in Asia Minor; a stinging indictment of Great Power politics, oil-lust and corruption. Dido Sotiriou's novel - a perennial best seller in Greece since it first appeared in 1962 - tells the story of Manolis Axiotis, a poor but resourceful villager born near the ancient ruins of Ephesus. Axiotis is a fictional protagonist and eyewitness to an authentic nightmare: Greece's "Asia Minor Catastrophe", the death or expulsion of two ...
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(P/B) FREEDOM AND DEATH
Freedom and Death is Kazantzakis's modern Iliad. The context is Crete in the late nineteenth century, the epic struggle between Greeks and Turks, between Chrisianity and Islam. A new uprising takes place to rival those of 1854, 1866 and 1878, and the island is thrown into confusion yet again. In the village of Megalokastro a Cretan resistance fighter, Captain Michales, is matched by the Turkish bey, his blood-brother. The life of the local community continues shakily, but is disrupted by explosions of violence. (From the publisher)...
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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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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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