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Table of Contents

Athens:
Vassilis Vassilikos "The White Bear"
Marios Hakkas "The Fresco"
Odysseus Elytis "Funerary Epigrams"

The Peloponnese:
Nikos Kazantzakis "Pilgrimage Through Greece"
Ilias Venezis "Mycenae"
Thanassis Valtinos "Panayotis"

Mani:
Leonidas Zenakos "The Hole in the Rock"

Central Greece:
George Seferis "Delphi"
Eva Vlami "Galaxidi: The Fate of a Maritime Town"

The Ionian Islands:
Ilias Venezis "Lefkas"

Epirus:
Dimitris Hatzis "Sioulas the Tanner"
Christoforos Milionis "Carnival"

Thessaly:
Georgios Drosinis "Angel John the Thief"

Macedonia:
Yorgos Ioannou "The Dogs of Seikh-Sou"
Yiorgos Chouliaras "America Is No Longer Here"

Thrace:
Elli Alexiou "The Fountain of Brahim-Baba"
Michel Fais "Autobiography of a Book"

The Eastern Aegean:
Alexandra Papadopoulou "The Regards"

The Cyclades:
Kostas Ouranis "In the Old Catholic Syros"
Melpo Axioti "My Home"

Crete:
Manolis Xexakis "The Smile from the Abyss"
Rhea Galanaki "Black and White"

The Dodecanese:
Margarita Karapanou "Kalymnos"
Eugenia Fakinou "Astradeni"

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #810277 in Books
• Published on: 1997-06-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

From Amazon.com
Greece is a heady experience, with the hot sun and whitewashed homes, the sea, the food and people, the ruins, culture, and history. No matter which guide books one takes and how well versed one is in Homer and Sophocles, who doesn't sail into Piraéus feeling woefully ill-prepared to appreciate the glories of Greece? The 24 finely crafted short stories by modern Greek writers (many appear in English for the first time), arranged geographically (by Athens, the Peloponnese, Crete, and so on), help weave together some understanding of ancient, literary, and modern Greece.

From Library Journal
The value of this work is in its Greekness: a selection of 24 pieces?stories, essays, and vignettes?that offer a lesson in contemporary Greek history and modern mythology. These are not views of a country by outsiders or expatriates-in-residence. The writers are all 20th-century literary figures in Greece, including two Nobel laureates (George Seferis and Odysseas Elytis) and Nikos Kazantzakis, best known to Western readers for his Zorba the Greek. Collectively, these writers reveal the rich complexity and mystery of the country. Editor Leontis has arranged the work by regions, which is especially handy for the traveler. Author biographies are included at the end of the book. This region is not easily understood, as illustrated in the brief piece by Manolis Xexakis titled "The Smile from the Abyss," in which village women wash the skulls of the dead on Saturday of the Souls?a simple act with a complicated history. Recommended for academic and large public libraries.?Janet N. Ross, Sparks Branch Lib., Nev.
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Review
"A first rate collection... Showcasing the work of such well-known modern writers as (Nobel Prize Winners) Odysseus Elytis, and George Seferis, Nikos Kazantzakis, and Vassilus Vassilikos..." -- Kirkus Reviews.