It is the story of Koula, a middle-aged married woman who falls in love with a young man that she meets routinely on the subway ride home to her husband and kids. Attracted to older women (in fact, h
While lying on a beach in Greece with an accommodating female companion, the narrator of this novel, Petros Abatzoglou (also the name of the author), describes the peculiar life story and marriage of
In awarding Odysseus Elytis the 1979 Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy praised him "for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and in
Tendencies and perspectives, shifting spaces and drifting identities, the global as local, fragmented worlds, and new treatments of old themes are explored by literary scholars, critics, social scient
Rural Greece during German occupation and the civil war. Meskaris, a young mother whose husband is away fighting, takes as her lover a shy Italian soldier, so as to better feed and clothe her children
The essays collected in Modern Greek Literature represent the work of young scholars as they expand the range of approaches to modern Greek literature. The contributors vary in their focus from compar
In The Few Things I Know About Glafkos Thrassakis, one of Greece's most prolific contemporary authors tackles the multiple specters of Greece's (and his own) past 75 years: childhood during World War
Published in 1855 and considered Greece's first realistic social novel, Thanos Vlekas is a witty and ambitious portrayal of the problems facing the newly established Greek state after its War of Indep
Thanassis Valtinos juxtaposes character voices, stories, and news clips to highlight the clash of the past and the present in Greece during a period of unprecedented cultural transformation. In the 19
In settings both rural and urban, and ranging across time from World War II to the present, Thanassis Valtinos contrasts the cheap and popular side of twentieth century Greece with the enduring sense
Nikos Gatsos's profoundly mysterious and magnetic poem Amargos, named after a Greek island he never visited and written during the Nazi occupation, is the single work on which his reputation rests. I
A definitive overview of the work of the Greek Nobel Prize winner includes early work from his association with the Surrealists, to his entire long poem, The Little Mariner, to the poems written befor
While the poetry of Cavafy, Elytis, Ritsos, and Seferis is readily available to English speakers, Greek women's poetry remains virtually unknown to non-specialists. The Rehearsal of Misunderstanding,
In Portrait of a Greek Imagination, Michael Hetzfeld succeeds in telling the life history of Andreas Nenedakis in a way that beautifully connects autobiographic and ethnographic levels of understandin
Not a stage comedy, but an exploration of Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis' (1883-1957) view of God, specifically of his attempt to develop a view superior to the traditional one. Finds that he chose Pl
Discover Greece - a country that has inspired centuries of travel - through its best modern writers. Against a superb landscape of mountains, beaches, villages, cities, and ruins, all bathed in the r
