Κοινότητα Αναγνωστών Βιβλίων - readers.gr

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...

[...] "Facing Athens"is dedicated to all those who love Athens or wish to understand it a little more deeply. Our intention was to search for the face of present-day Athens, guided by buildings which are standing and which help us follow the evolution of the city throughout the 20th century. This book is a travelogue of the Greek capital from 1900 to 2000, through the facades of the houses and apartment blocks in which the Athenians chose to live. These houses, all of which survive and which one can find and look at up close, are witnesses to an urban course in time which c...

[...] "Facing Athens"is dedicated to all those who love Athens or wish to understand it a little more deeply. Our intention was to search for the face of present-day Athens, guided by buildings which are standing and which help us follow the evolution of the city throughout the 20th century. This book is a travelogue of the Greek capital from 1900 to 2000, through the facades of the houses and apartment blocks in which the Athenians chose to live. These houses, all of which survive and which one can find and look at up close, are witnesses to an urban course in time which c...

O Γιάννης Μαρής υπήρξε κάτι πολύ περισσότερο από "πατριάρχης της ελληνικής αστυνομικής λογοτεχνίας": μαχητικός δημοσιογράφος στα χρόνια του αντικομμουνισμού και της λογοκρισίας, σημαντικός παράγων στα εκδοτικά και δημοσιογραφικά πράγματα της χώρας για 25 χρόνια και ταυτόχρονα υποδειγματικός "αφηγητής" αλλά και προικισμένος συγγραφέας, που μπορούσε να πλάθει πειστικούς χαρακτήρες, με προεξάρχοντα τον αντι-ήρωα πρωταγωνιστή των αστυνομικών του ιστοριών, αστυνόμο Γιώργη Μπέκα. Ο Μαρής ήξερε να σκηνοθετεί χωροχρονικά έναν ατμοσφαιρικό μυθιστορηματικό κόσμο στην καρδιά ή στα προ...