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GREEK FOLK TALES
Greek folk tales descend from Aesop and Greek antiquity, as well as medieval storytelling in the pivotal south-east Mediterranean world that linked Christianity, Islam and Byzantium. These tales, told by folk narrators throughout Greek-speaking regions up to our times, are wondrous, whimsical stories about doughty youths and frightful monsters, resourceful maidens and animals gifted with human speech. The tales weave substantive motifs, characters, and forms into a rich tapestry capturing the temperament and ethos of the Greek folk psyche....
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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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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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(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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(P/B) REPORT TO GRECO
Kazantzakis's autobiographical novel Report to Greco was one of the last things he wrote before he died. It paints a vivid picture of his childhood in Crete, still occupied by the Turks, and then steadily grows into a spiritual quest that takes him to Italy, Jerusalem, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Russia and the Caucasus, and finally back to Crete again. At different times Nietzsche, Bergson, Buddha, Homer and Christ dominate as his spiritual masters. (From the publisher) "There can never be any doubt that Kazantzakis was the possessor of geniu...
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FOOL'S GOLD
My father, thunderstruck, was demanding to know: "But when? This is madness! Impossible." When at last he replaces the receiver in a grand Shakespearean manner - my father has it in the blood - he broke the news to us: Dictatorship. My mother cried out and collapsed in a heap on the sofa. Calliope the maid, as part of her duties, always manages to sense the right moment for a restorative coffee, and set off for the kitchen. My father repeated: "Dictatorship, do you hear!" I stared at him, shaking off sleep. This is how Myrsini Panayotou, a...
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THRACIAN TALES
Georgios Vizyenos (1849-1896) is one of Greece's best-loved writers. His stories, written in 1883-4, are set in his native Thrace, a corner of Europe where Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey meet. Each title poses an enigma: Where did Yorgis' grandfather travel on his only journey? What was Yorgis' mother's sin? Who was responsible for his brother's murder? At the end of each story the narrator possesses some knowledge that forces him - and his readers - to revise their earlier assumptions, which were based on incomplete knowledge. Because Vizyen...
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A Greek quintet
During the twentieth century the Greek world produced a wealth of poetry that is as astonishing in its scope as it is in its vigour, and this anthology brings together a selection from the works of the five poets who may be said to take pride of place in substantiating this achievement. Two of them, George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis, are Nobel Laureates, Cavafy is certainly one of the most ubiquitous poets of our times, the oracular grandeur of Angelos Sikelianos companions him with W. B. Yeats, while Nikos Gatsos, less known outside Gree...
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(P/B) THE COLLECTED POEMS
E. M. Forster's description of C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) perfectly encapsulates the unique perspective Cavafy brought to bear on history and geography, sexuality and language in his poems. Cavafy writes about people on the periphery, whose religious, ethnic and cultural identities are blurred, and he was one of the pioneers in expressing a specifically homosexual sensibility. His poems present brief and vivid evocations of historical scenes and sensual moments, often infused with his distinctive sense of irony. They have established him as ...
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(P/B) REMEMBER, BODY...
'All those excessive, useless regrets...' Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped th...
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GYPSY FOLKTALES FROM GREECE
When we think of the arts in relation to Roma, we think of music and dance, performance arts that are easily accessible to the public at large. Storytelling is considered a significant artform among the Roma but it is a private one, reserved and intended for transmission strictly within their own community. The book you hold in your hands, Gypsy Folktales from Greece, is a selection of 20 unique and vivid Romani tales, lovingly collected by sociologist-ethnologists Rita Spanouli and Giorgos Lepeniotis over the course of three decades of vi...
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GEORGIOS VIZYINOS: DIE EINZIGE REISE SEINES LEBENS

KALAMAS AND ACHERON
What is Acheron? A river in the north-west of Greece, in Epirus, which, in ancient Greek mythology, was the boundary between life and death. What is Kalamas? It too is a river, in the same region, which Byron associated with the Acheron in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and History, after a hundred and fifty years was to give it, and in a dramatic way, the same meaning. What is Kalamas and Acheron? A cycle of stories, closely connected, which can be read as a novel, where the two rivers become the boundary not only between life and death, but...
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GOOD FRIDAY VIGIL
The protagonist in each of these stories is a solitary individual, alienated from society, haunted by memories, fascinated by the disgusting, obsessed with the relationship between love and death, and fetishistically attached to certain objects that bear the traces of traumatic experiences. loannou brilliantly highlights the discrepancy between intimate acts of sex and violence, and the way people pretend in public that life can be lived without physicality. In Good Friday Vigil -his last book of stories before his untimely death in 1985- ...
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MOTHER THESSALONIKI
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 end...
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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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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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(P/B) THE SIEGE OF TROY
In this perceptive retelling of The Iliad, a young Greek teacher draws on the enduring power of myth to help her students cope with the terrors of Nazi occupation. Bombs fall over a Greek village during World War II, and a teacher takes her students to a cave for shelter. There she tells them about another war-when the Greeks besieged Troy. Day after day, she recounts how the Greeks suffer from thirst, heat, and homesickness, and how the opponents meet-army against army, man against man. Helmets are cleaved, heads fly, blood flows. And eve...
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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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STORIA DI UN PRIGIONIERO
1922, guerra greco-turca: Smirne, la citta cosmopolita dell'Asia Minore, viene data alle fiamme e saccheggiata. Nikolas, un soldato greco d'Anatolia, viene catturato dai Turchi e insieme ad altri prigionieri deportato nell'entroterra. Riesce tuttavia a scappare, e ha inizio cosi la sua lotta per la sopravvivenza. Con ritmo asmatico e la trepidazione del fuggitivo, il protagonista racconta gli stenti, le sventure e le umiliazioni subite, in un'opera scarna nel linguaggio, ma sconvolgente per gli eventi che riporta e per i tanti altri che so...
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