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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 themes. The poems are chosen, introduced
and mainly translated by the leading translators of modern Greek
poetry, Edmund Keeley and the late Philip Sherrard, whose
collaborations also included translations of Seferis, Cavafy and
Sikelianos. Other contributors to the book include George Savidis,
Nanos Valaoritis and John Stathatos.
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The Axion Esti (Paperback, New ed)
Odysseus Elytis; Translated by Edmund Keeley, George Savidis
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When Odysseus Elytis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature,
the Swedish Academy's citation singled out "The Axion Esti", first
published in 1959, as 'one of twentieth-century literature's most
concentrated and richly faceted poems.' It can be seen both as a
secular oratorio, reflecting the Greek heritage and the country's
revolutionary spirit, and also as a kind of autobiography, in which
the spiritual roots of the poet's very individual sensibility are
set in the wider philosophical context of the Greek tradition. In
his evocation of eternal Greece, his vision of the war and its
aftermath, and his concluding celebration of human life, Elytis is
a true voice of our age A- a deeply personal lyric poet who speaks
for humanity at large.
"The Axion Esti" is probably the most widely read volume of verse
to have appeared in Greece since World War II and remains a classic
today. Those who follow the music of Greek composer Mikis
Theodorakis have been especially drawn to Odysseus Elytis's work,
his prose is widely considered a mirror to the revolutionary music
of Theodorakis. The "autobiographical" elements are constantly
colored by allusion to the history of Greece, thus, the poems
express a contemporary consciousness fully resonant with those
echoes of the past that have served most to shape the modern Greek
experience.
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