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LE PECHE DE MA MERE
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 I'introspection et une profondeur psychologique remarquable, allies a une douce ironie. Tout cela fait de Vizy...
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IL LOGGIONE

HYDRA IN MY HEART
One Lenten Triodion in the 70s. A Philosophy School student arrives in Hydra, equipped with a tape recorder, a camera and a questionnaire. Her mission is to conduct on-site folklore research. She feels like Don Quixote out on an adventure. Only Don Quixote comes into a world he no longer recognises, where truths are scattered and ambiguous, while she feels that she is cognisant of the truths of the small insular society, since she hails from the island and has spent all the summers of her life there. Still, she is to be given the lie. Life...
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POPE JOAN
Roides' irreverent, witty and delightful novel tells the story of Joan who, according to a popular medieval legend, ascended to the Papal Throne as Pope John VIII. The truth of the legend is of little importance as the book is far more than a historical novel and, in fact, parodies the popular historical romances of the time. In Joan, Roides has created one of the most remarkable characters in modern Greek literature and in so doing has assured his place as one of its classic authors. (From the publisher) "Pope Joan has a double claim on ...
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IN THE NAME OF LUMINOSITY AND TRANSPARENCY
The poetry of Odysseus Elytis owes as much to the ancients and Byzantium, as to the surrealists of the 1930s and the architecture of the Cyclades, bringing romantic modernism and structural experimentation to Greece. Collected here are the two speeches Elytis gave on his acceptance of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Literature, which are still strikingly relevant today. He addresses a hypertrophic and atrophic Europe in moral chaos, with as many coexisting values as languages - and to this he offers the "common language" that is found in poetry, ...
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KONSTANTINOS KAVAFIS: NOTE DI POETICA ET DI MORALE
Le ventisette Note di poetica e di morale contenute nel presente volume lumeggiano in modo inedito I'indissolubile legame tra I'arte e I'amore che segna la personalita di Konstantinos Kavafis. La traduzione e corredata dal testo originale greco a fronte. (Dal editore)...
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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 KING'S FLUTE
It was owing to Kostes Palamas and in particular to his collections of poems. The Twelve Words of the Gipsy and The King's Flute, both translated into several foreign languages, that the cultural life of Greece began to attract the serious attention of world opinion in the opening years of the twentieth century. Oscar Wilde was the first to warm to Palamas work; from then on world opinion recognised in Palamas not only the greatest poet of modern Greece but one of the foremost poets of Europe. A host of great names was connected with trans...
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LOVE IN THE SNOW
The snow which covers the hero in "Love in the Snow", set on the island of Skiathos, birthplace of the Greek writer Alexandras Papadiamantis (1851-1911), runs parallel, one could say, with the snow falling "all over Ireland", in Joyce's "The Dead", or indeed the snow which in distant Russia whitens Chekhov's coachman of the short story "Heartache", who, inconsolable over the recent loss of his son, was unable, among so many people that day, to unburden his grief to anyone but his own horse while unharnessing it the same evening in the stab...
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LANDSCAPE OF NOTHING - [ΤΟΠΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΤΙΠΟΤΑ] (ΔΙΓΛΩΣΣΗ ΕΚΔΟΣΗ, ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ-ΑΓΓΛΙΚΑ)
Γράφω Γράφω· Έγραψα· Έχω γράψει. Καλά ως εδώ. Όμως του λείπει ο μέλλοντας. Αδόκιμη η προστακτική. Κι η οριστική του, ευφημισμός Της ευκτικής. Ανώμαλο ρήμα, εντέλει. Περίπλοκο. Ποιος μπορεί να το μάθει. [Από την έκδοση]...
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THE JOY IS IN THE JOURNEY (MODERN GREEK WRITERS)
This "healing" book plunges the reader in a world full of sea, colours, light and cool breeze that portray the many facets of Greek life, and at the same time gives simple, every day, apparently unimportant facts their real value. "Whoever derives pleasure from small things always wins the lottery in life", says the aged heroine who, born in the midst of the Smyrna Disaster of 1922, was rescued from the flames and brought to live in one of the Aegean islands where she found a second home and a loving family. As she spins out for us the dif...
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ΔΥΟ ΔΙΗΓΗΜΑΤΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΗ ΣΚΙΑΘΟ (ΡΩΣΙΚΗ ΕΚΔΟΣΗ)

NEVER GO TO THE POST OFFICE ALONE
Great historical events are never anonymous - they sweep anyone in their path into the fray. Kevin Danaher, a foreign correspondent in Moscow, will discover exactly that, as he queues at the city's central post office one morning in 1989, waiting to send a fax to his newspaper in New York. How could he know that the beautiful East German woman standing in front of him was the means chosen by fate to throw him onto the stage of world history? With the Soviet Union collapsing and the Berlin Wall about to fall, this moment of history would ch...
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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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LE COLONEL LIAPKINE

Valitut runot (δίγλωσση έκδοση, Ελληνικά-Φινλανδικά)
ΜΕΡΕΣ ΤΟΥ 1901 Τούτο εις αυτόν υπήρχε το ξεχωριστό, που μέσα σ' όλην του την έκλυσι και την πολλήν του πείραν έρωτος, παρ' όλην την συνειθισμένη του στάσεως και ηλικίας εναρμόνισιν, ετύχαιναν στιγμές - πλην βέβαια σπανιότατες - που την εντύπωσιν έδιδε σάρκας σχεδόν άθικτης. Των είκοσι εννιά του χρόνων η εμορφιά, η τόσο από την ηδονή δοκιμασμένη, ήταν στιγμές που θύμιζε παράδοξα έφηβο που -κάπως αδέξια- στην αγάπη πρώτη φορά το αγνό του σώμα παραδίδει. [Από την έκδοση]...
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Drieenderting gedichten (δίγλωσση έκδοση, Ελληνικά-Ολλανδικά)
ΦΩΝΕΣ Ιδανικές φωνές κι αγαπημένες εκείνων που πεθάναν, ή εκείνων που είναι για μας χαμένοι σαν τους πεθαμένους. Κάποτε μες στα όνειρά μας ομιλούνε· κάποτε μες στην σκέψι τες ακούει το μυαλό. Και με τον ήχο των για μια στιγμή επιστρέφουν ήχοι από την πρώτη ποίησι της ζωής μας - σα μουσική, την νύχτα, μακρυνή, που σβύνει. [Από την έκδοση]...
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Imaret
Arta, 1854. The Turkish occupation. Two boys are born on the same night, one a Greek, the other a Turk, and fate makes them milk-siblings. The novel follows their life drawn on the canvas of the region's unknown history. An entire era is brought to life in a unique way portraying prejudice alongside adventure, love, comic and tragic situations. In the shadow of the clock which strikes the Ottoman hours, Greeks, Turks and Jews live side by side. The shadow falls upon two friends, Liondos and Necip, a mysterious murder, grandpa Ismail, the s...
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(P/B) THE SPIRITUAL MEADOW
"A young man arrives on a Greek island to take up a teaching position, but what follows is a surreal allegory in which the island sinks beneath the sea, he becomes a Byzantine monk, and famous figures from the past shoot it out in the school assembly hall. Written during the Colonel's dictatorship and first published in 1974, this strange novel provides a highly unorthodox lesson in Greek history." - Scotland on Sunday...
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POEMS
Ever since I first started reading the poetry of Dinos Christianopoulos several years ago, I was tempted by the idea of translating it into English. This idea was contrary to the belief I share with many people that poetry, unlike prose, does not allow good margin for linguistic and cultural replication. The meaning of poetry is not derived from definition of word but arises from a matrix of linguistic particularities: particularities of sound, percussion, register, analogy, structure and syntax. Each language has a particular obbligato of...
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