Κοινότητα Αναγνωστών Βιβλίων - readers.gr

Ποιήματα του Γιώργου Σεφέρη μεταφρασμένα στα αγγλικά από τον κορυφαίο νεοελληνιστή Roderick Beaton, εμπλουτίζουν πλέον τη σειρά των Εκδόσεων Αιώρα Modern Greek Classics. Οι ποιητικές συλλογές "Μυθιστόρημα" και "Τρία κρυφά ποιήματα", καθώς και ποιήματα από τις συλλογές, "Στροφή", "Ημερολόγιο Καταστρώματος Β'" και "Ημερολόγιο Καταστρώματος Γ'" περιλαμβάνονται σε μια δίγλωσση έκδοση (αγγλικά-ελληνικά).

This book introduces the major works and authors in modern Greek literature from the 11th century to the present. The progress of Greek letters through the centuries, like that of the modern nation itself, has been neither smooth nor even. The nation has found itself alternately scaling great creative heights and plumbing the depths of cultural stagnation, with its impulse for creativity almost extinguished. However, this impulse was never entirely smothered, not even during the endless years of enslavement, the dark ages following the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Moder...

My father, thunderstruck, was demanding to know: "But when? This is madness! Impossible." When ar fasf 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, an Athenian girl about to star...