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Selected Poems (Hardcover)
Nikos Engonopoulos; Translated by David Connolly
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Nikos Engonopoulos (1907-1985) was one of the most prominent
representatives of Greek Surrealist poetry and painting. Closely
associated with Andreas Embeirikos, the "patriarch" of Surrealism
in Greece, and with Nicolas Calas, an influential figure of the
European and American avant-garde, Engonopoulos developed highly
experimental pictorial and poetic aesthetics. In both his paintings
and poems, he engaged in a critical, often ironic dialogue with
Greek history and cultural traditions and their ideological
appropriations in established cultural and political discourses.
Engonopoulos was arguably the keenest advocate of Surrealist black
humor and irony in Greece. His overall approach to the Greek past,
informed as it was by the socio-aesthetic principles of French
Surrealism, constitutes one of the most ingenious and provocative
cases of artistic mythogenesis in the European avant-garde. This
volume offers a collection of his most representative poems,
including his long poem Bolivar, which was written in the winter of
1942-1943 and soon acquired the status of an emblematic act of
resistance against the Nazis and their allies (Italians and
Bulgarians), who had occupied Greece in 1941.
It has been said that Odysseys Elytis' national and international
reputation as a poet has obscured the fact that he was an
accomplished prose writer and a sensitive critic as well. Born in
Crete in 1911 he published his first poems in 1935 and established
himself as one of the leading figures in the "Generation of the
Thirties" which also included Greece's other Nobel Laureate, George
Seferis. In 1979, Elytis was awared the Nobel Prize for literature.
His first volume of poetry "Open Book" was characterized by a
polemical and often apologetic tone, the texts in "Carte Blanche"
are more confessional and reflective, sometimes prophetic, yet
always poetic and with the same boldness of expression.
When an Albanian husband and wife are found dead in their home,
Inspector Costas Haritos, a veteran junta-trained homicide
detective on the Athens police force, is called to what seems at
first to be an open-and-shut case. For the Greek police, two dead
Albanians are hardly a matter of concern. But when Albania's
celebrity television news reporter Janna Karayoryi insists that
thecase was closed too early, Haritos becomes unnerved. He doesn't
exactly like the ambitious young journalist, but could she be right
in thinking the murder has something to do with babies? Before
Haritos can find out, Janna is murdered suddenly and chillingly,
moments before she is to go on the air with a startling newsbreak.
Did her mysterious report have something to do with the murdered
Albanians? Who wanted her silenced, and why? Caught between a
bumbling junior officer and higher-ups all too easily influenced by
news executives determined to protect their own. Costas Haritos
sets out to get to the bottom of the matter--and ends up neck deep
in a dark form of capitalism that has emerged in Albania after the
dictatorship.
Derided and maligned more than any other Greek artist for his
innovative and, at the time, often incomprehensible modernist
experiments, Engonopoulos is today justifiably regarded as one of
the most original artists of his generation and as a unique figure
in Greek letters. Though he considered himself first a painter and
only afterwards a poet, his poetry is widely read and admired, with
many critical studies of his work appearing in recent years and
with a growing recognition of its value and of its creative use of
the Greek tradition and language. He enriched post-war Greek poetry
with a host of poetic expressions, figures and images that have
come to constitute part of the Greek poetic consciousness. In both
his painting and poetry, he created a peculiarly Greek surrealism,
a blending of the Dionysian and Apollonian, though always in
keeping with basic surrealist tenets and, as such, his work is an
important and original contribution not only to Modern Greek art
and poetry but also to modern art and poetry worldwide.
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Bar Flaubert (Paperback)
Alexis Stamatis; Translated by David Connolly
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A journey full of love, denial and danger, where fiction is not
that distant from reality. The answers will be found at Bar
Flaubert. One man's quest to discover and understand the driving
force behind an aspiring novelist who's written words seem to echo
his innermost thoughts. Both a search for identity and an
intriguing family saga, this tale follows the journey-filled with
love, denial, and danger-undertaken by a young man who tries to
discover why a novel by an aspiring writer seems to echo his own
innermost thoughts. In Barcelona, Berlin, and Florence, he traces
his Greek family's many connections and at last uncovers a
mysterious ancestor who links together the strands of his
investigation. Readers are taken on a journey where fiction is not
that distant from reality.
The latest addition to the Dedalus Series on European Fantasy
Literature, this anthology of short stories presents the richness
and diversity of Greek fantasy literature, steeped in Homeric
tradition. This first such collection spans the 20th century and
contains mostly work in first English translations, including-
classic Greek authors: Papadiamantis, Karkavitsas, Theotokas,
Karagatsis- leading contemporary writers: Ambatzoglou, Valtinos,
Yatromanolakis, Skakianakis, Tatsopoulos- prose of major Greek
poets: Cavafy, Karyotakis- Greek Surrealists: Embeirikos,
Engonopoulos, Valaoritis
Fey Folk is characteristic of Papadiamandiss work. Its characters
are quaint, simple-hearted folk living their humble lives in
accordance with centuries-old traditions and customs, delightfully
described by Papadiamandis with both reverence and humour. The
setting is the hinterland of his native island of Skiathos with its
intoxicating vegetation, its hillsides, springs and ravines, where
the belief in spirits and the supernatural is deeply rooted in the
consciousness of the otherwise God-fearing and devout inhabitants.
Generally recognized as one of the foremost Greek prose writers of
the modern period, Alexandros Papadiamandis holds a special place
in the history of modern Greek letters, but also in the heart of
the ordinary Greek reader.
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Eroticon (Paperback)
Yorgi Yatromanolakis; Translated by David Connolly
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Yorgi Yatromanolakis is a professor of ancie nt Greek, and is
regarded as one of Greece''s most important 20th century novelists.
His third novel, The History of a Ve ndetta, was awarded the First
Greek National Prize for Liter ature '
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Selected Poems (Paperback)
Nikiforos Vrettakos; Introduction by David Connolly; Translated by David Connolly; Cover design or artwork by Panagiotis Stavropoulos
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Vrettakoss 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.
Clutching his vodka and his memories, he seeks refuge on an island
in the Cyclades. There by chance he meets a young woman who
reactivates love's vocabulary. His survival instinct faintly
reappears through the distorting mirror of alcohol. Yet the craving
is an irresistible, clever adversary that shows no mercy. He is
drawn by his love to places that affect his emotional world ever
more forcefully. Moving from Paris and Munich to London and a
mountain village in central Greece, he meets a young woman and it
becomes clear that the greatest magic is to be found in reality,
not the bottle.
The Falstaff Principle is a fast moving trans-national thriller
which asks "When is discretion the better part of valour?" It
questions many of the values we take for granted and gives a
glimpse into the workings of the establishment in modern Britain.
This volume contains translations of two late collections by
Odysseas Elytis (Nobel Prize for literature, 1979). According to
the official announcement of the Swedish Academy, the Nobel Prize
was awarded to Elytis "for his poetry, which, against the
background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and
intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom
and creativeness." The Oxopetra Elegies, which he published in
November 1991 at the age of eighty, was immediately hailed as one
of his finest works. Far from being a dialogue with death, as many
critics hastily concluded, these elegies are laments for what is
seen and perceived in certain "timeless moments" that, like the
Oxopetra headland, project into the beyond, into another reality,
revealing truths that, to the poet's constant dismay, remain
"unverifiable" and "unutterable." The poems here function as a
"contemporary form of magic," a key opening the portals to this
other reality, at least for those who speak Elytis' language: the
language of the Secret Sun. In West of Sorrow, published in
November 1995, only months before his death, it becomes even
clearer that his poetry remains, as it always was, a paean to life
and love and beauty.
The introduction of PSA testing into clinical practice has
revolutionised the diagnosis and management of prostate cancer,
although much debate surrounds the value of PSA testing. Despite
the lack of definitive evidence, there is widespread use of PSA
screening in asymptomatic men, with aggressive investigation and
treatment recommended. This has undoubtedly led to overdiagnosis
and overtreatment of some men with prostate cancer. This book
summarises the basis and clinical aspects of PSA testing and
prostate cancer diagnosis. Additionally, data from a unique
population-based database of PSA tests are presented examining the
utility of a single PSA and of repeated measures of PSA in the
diagnosis of prostate cancer. Finally, by means of an exceptional
natural experiment in Northern Ireland, the natural history of an
elevated PSA without invasive investigation is explored. This book
will be useful for men, students and physicians alike who wish a
concise but comprehensive text on PSA and prostate cancer
diagnosis, and will help inform men when trying to make the
difficult decision about proceeding to invasive investigaton and
treatment.
This volume brings together critical editions, translations into
English, and textual studies of two seminal early printed books in
the history of German mining. Johan Haselberg's "Der Ursprung
gemeynner Berckrecht," dating from the 1530s, is the earliest
printed compendium of legal and scientific texts on metal mining,
some dating back to the 12th century. The "Bergkordnung Norwegen,"
printed in 1540, stands out as the first mining code composed in
Germany for use in another country (Norway). The lengthy
introduction surveys early German mining and mining literature in
general, then examines the two books in their cultural, historical,
and linguistic contexts. On the one hand, early practices and
developments in the evolution of compiling technical information
are demonstrated in the texts; however, the books also reveal some
of the problems adherent to textual transmission in the early
period of book printing.
This study describes and illustrates, with plans, drawings and
photographs, 75 of the defensive towers in the Emirate of Ras
al-Khaimah, which occupies the western side of the Musandam
peninsula at the entrance to the Arabian Gulf. The material comes
from a survey undertaken between December 1991 and January 1992,
and includes an introduction discussing geography, history,
typology and distribution, and construction techniques and
features.
A stunning collection that draws from four decades of verse by one
of modern Greece's most lauded poets This is the first
English-language collection of work by the renowned Greek poet
Michalis Ganas. Originally from a remote village on the northwest
border of Greece, Ganas witnessed the Greek Civil War as a young
child, and was taken into enforced exile in Eastern Europe with his
family. Weaving together subtle references to the events and places
that have defined his life's story, Ganas's terse and technically
accomplished poems are a combination of folklore, autobiography,
and recent history. Whether describing the mountains of his youth
or the difficulties of acclimation in Athens of the 1960s and
1970s, Ganas's writing is infused with striking and original
imagery inspired by love, memory, and loss. Featuring expert
translations-made in collaboration with Ganas himself-by David
Connolly and Joshua Barley, this volume also includes a scholarly
introduction to the poet's life and work.
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