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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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SELECTED POEMS
Vrettakos's poems are firmly rooted in the Greek landscape and coloured by the Greek light, yet their themes and sentiment are ecumenical. His garden, his own heart, are but a microcosm of the entire world, of the whole of humanity, and both contain divine messages that the lens of poetry can help us to perceive. His poetry sings of the beauty of the natural world and offers a vision of the paradise that the world could be, but it is also imbued with a deep and painful awareness of the dark abyss that it threatens to become. For Vrettakos,...
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VANISHING POINT
In this story Aristotelis Nikolaidis, psychiatrist and prolific novelist and poet, relates how a certain individual slowly vanishes from view, a process that becomes strangely contagious. Starting with the narrator, who has doubts about his own identity and even the reality of his thoughts and memories, the contagion spreads to other characters and to the narrator itself. The hero's odyssey is a decent into hell in which reality becomes a snare trapping the wanderer in the state of absolute clandestinely; finally it reaches the very fronti...
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THE CICADAS
They're the gang that can't shoot straight: tough-guy wannabes straight out of a Greek-subtitled version of ''Thieves like us'', down-market motorcycle punks (no Hell's angels these), dead-end kids from the urban depths with foulmouthed girlfriends and parents as remote as prosperity. Innocents with attitude. Stamati, the bumbling ringleader, his faithful side-kick Takouli, and Foti, a self-styled strong, silent type who falls for a horny journalist, from a threesome with no past, no future, and a present as insouciant and short-lived as a...
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CONSTANTIN THEOTOKIS: LE PEINTRE D' APHRODITE
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(P/B) CHRIST RECRUCIFIED
The Greek peasants, who plan to enact the life of Christ in a mystery play, are overwhelmed by their task. They try to identify themselves with the parts they have been given; and when a group of refugees, fleeing from the ruins of their plundered homes, reaches the village hoping to find protection, the drama of the Passion becomes reality. (From the publisher)...
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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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AROUND THE LAGOON
"AROUND THE LAGOON", which Papadiamandis first published in two instalments in the magazine "Estia" in May 1 892, is one of his most finely crafted and densely written stories. A realistic setting and a flimsy plot are used to support a wealth of highly symbolic content. The physical descriptions of the terrain in Papadiamandis's story are detailed and precise enough for us to imagine the natural setting in our mind's eye. The lagoon around which the story is set is situated immediately to the east of Skiathos town and is separated from th...
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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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(P/B) WHAT'S LEFT OF THE NIGHT
In June 1897, the young Constantine Cavafy arrives in Paris on the last stop of a long European tour, a trip that will deeply shape his future and push him toward his poetic inclination. With this lyrical novel, tinged with a hallucinatory eroticism that unfolds over three unforgettable days, celebrated Greek author Ersi Sotiropoulos depicts Cavafy in the midst of a journey of self-discovery across a continent on the brink of massive change. He is by turns exhilarated and tormented by his homosexuality; the Greek-Turkish War has ended in G...
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SHORT STORIES
A Greek writer and his bad English, Thomas Aquinas and puns, badly written Python code and the USSR, Wittgenstein and Norwegian huts, supply, demand, and the East End, Tesco Pasta and Zurich. Gogol Bordello and a city that does not remember everything. Going Byzantine in Montpellier, naughty playwriters in Scandinavia, businessmen lost in Amsterdam. The Sicelian problem of reference, the coffee that tasted like a banana. Catalunya mistaken for Spain, heaven and hell mistaken for Southern California. Metternich, the bastard. A Greek rivalry...
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(H/B) The Parthenon Bomber
A novel at once metaphorical and iconoclastic, The Parthenon Bomber exposes the painful and maddening paradox of contemporary Greece. "Blow up the Acropolis" was the 1944 call to action by the surrealist circle the Harbingers of Chaos. Sixty years later, a young man obliges. The Parthenon has been destroyed, the city orphaned. Is it still Athens? All eyes are on the empty hill, now smoky and ashen. Cries of distress, indifference, and fanaticism fill the air. What were his reasons? How will he be punished for this unspeakable act of violen...
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(H/B) Another Life
A rewarding philosophical essay on memory, language, love, and the passage of time, from a Greek immigrant who became one of Sweden's most highly respected writers. "Nobody should write after the age of seventy-five," a friend had said. At seventy-seven, struggling with the weight of writer's block, Theodor Kallifatides makes the difficult decision to sell the Stockholm studio where he diligently worked for decades and retire. Unable to write, and yet unable to not write, he travels to his native Greece in the hope of rediscovering that lo...
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(P/B) MILTOS SACHTOURIS POEMS (1945-1971)
Karen Emmerich's poignant, eloquent versions of Sachtouris reveal not only the disturbing intensity of the original but also a remarkable diction and poetic pacing of her own. - HAROLD BLOOM I would say, 'Cut these poems and they'll bleed,' but they are already bleeding - a poet's evidence of world and civil wars, a military junta and dictatorship. We might call these poems noir, in which the poet manages to fashion a bloody and beautiful reflection of strange times. In this important translation, each poem is a house made of flesh, and w...
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(P/B) On the Unhappiness of Being Greek
If Noam Chomsky and Gore Vidal have a Greek analogue, it is Nikos Dimou, one of the most fertile minds of his generation. This book is a series of 193 mostly brief, often cutting and at times satirical aphorisms about Greece and Greeks. In the postscript, Dimou writes: I have tried, simply, to articulate my observations in such a way so that serious people will find them to be serious, while less serious ones will find them less serious. I am now tortured by the possibility that the exact opposite will occur. First published in 1975, this ...
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COME FORTH, KING
Who was Alexius Comnenus who would wage war in East and West to save Byzantium from the edge of the abyss? Who were the women who loved him? Who was it who tried to poison him? Why did his daughter, Anna Comnena, hate her brother, John, the co-Emperor? Why did his wife, Irene Duca, promote Nicephorus Bryennius for the throne? People and events; failures, tears and sorrows, hopes, visions that faded, joys that evaporated, meanness and passion. "Come Forth, King" attempts to revive the final glimmer of Byzantium and to take us back on a jour...
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ELYTIS: SELECTED POEMS
This representative selection from the work of one of modern Greece’s most fascinating poets was made shortly after his award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1979. It is drawn from all periods of his distinguished career and traces his development from early surrealism, in which he transforms French influence into a distinct personal voice and mythology, through the dramatic style of The Axion Esti with its blend of spirituality and earthiness, up to the later work in which he experiments with new modes for expressing his perennial th...
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SELECTED POEMS IN GREEK AND ENGLISH
ΕΙΠΕ Η ΜΟΥΣΑ Οι ποιητές άλλο δεν είναι παρά κύματα του Ωκεανού που τ' όνομά του είναι Πνεύμα [Από την έκδοση] THUS SPOKE THE MUSE Poets are nothing but waves / of the ocean whose name is Spirit [From the publisher]...
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JAGUAR
The author has called The Jaguar "an extravagant story." He employs an extravagant style to stress the irony of his heroine's attempt to preserve a false image of her moral superiority in the process of promoting selfish ends. The historical events referred to in Dimitra's account of herself and her family belong to the Second World War period. Dimitra, a mathematics teacher, had been an active member of the leftist resistance movement during the Nazi occupation of Greece and was persecuted as a communist in the civil war era that followed...
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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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