Late Into the Night

Late Into the Night PDF Author: Giannēs Ritsos
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Late Into the Night

Late Into the Night PDF Author: Giannēs Ritsos
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Yannis Ritsos

Yannis Ritsos PDF Author: Giannēs Ritsos
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691019088
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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The celebrated modern Greek poet Yannis Ritsos follows such distinguished predecessors as C. P. Cavafy and George Seferis in a dramatic and symbolic expression of a tragic sense of life. The shorter poems gathered in this volume present what Ritsos calls "simple things" that turn out not to be simple at all. Here we find a world of subtle nuances, in which everyday events hide much that is threatening, oppressive, and spiritually vacuous--but the poems also provide lyrical and idyllic interludes, along with cunning re-creations of Greek mythology and history. This collection of Ritsos's work--perhaps most of all those poems written while he was in forced exile under the dictatorship of the Colonels--testifies to his just place among the major European poets of this century. The distinguished translator of modern Greek poetry Edmund Keeley has chosen for this anthology selections from seven of Ritsos's volumes of shorter poems written between 1946 and 1975. Two of these volumes are represented here in English versions for the first time, two others have been translated only sporadically, and the remaining three were first published in a bilingual edition now out of print (Ritsos in Parentheses). The collection thus covers thirty years of a poetic career that is the most prolific, and among the most honored, in Greece's modern history.

Yannis Ritsos, Selected Poems

Yannis Ritsos, Selected Poems PDF Author: Giannēs Ritsos
Publisher: Penguin Group
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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The Fourth Dimension

The Fourth Dimension PDF Author: Giannēs Ritsos
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691024650
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 347

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In the dramatic monologues that make up The Fourth Dimension--especially those based on the grim history of Mycenae and its royal protagonists--the celebrated modern Greek poet Yannis Ritsos presents a timeless poetic paradigm of the condition of Greece, past and present. The volume also contains a group of modern narratives, including the famous, and much-anthologized, "Moonlight Sonata." Ritsos, rightly, regarded the The Fourth Dimension as his finest achievement. It is now presented to English- speaking readers for the first time in its entirety. From "Philoctetes" All the speeches of great men, about the dead and about heroes. Astonishing, awesome words, pursued us even in our sleep, slipping beneath closed doors, from the banqueting hall where glasses and voices sparkled, and the veil of an unseen dancer rippled silently like a diaphanous, whirling wall between life and death. This throbbing our childhood nights, lightening the shadows of shields etched on white walls by slow moonlight.

Romiosyne

Romiosyne PDF Author: Giannēs Ritsos
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Languages : en
Pages : 12

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Monochords

Monochords PDF Author: Giannēs Ritsos
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ISBN: 9781935635703
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Poetry. Translated from the Greek by Paul Merchant. "The poems in this volume were written in the village of Karlovasi on Samos at the rate of about ten a day in the summer of 1979, a first draft written August 1st through 26th, the second completed by September 1st. After becoming dangerously ill in 1968, Ritsos had been released from the prison island of Leros and sent to strict house arrest on Samos, where his wife had a medical practice. He was allowed to return to Athens and to publish again in 1971. He subsequently spent summers on Samos, for instance in 1972, 1975, and 1979, when these poems were composed."--Paul Merchant

The Sovereign Sun

The Sovereign Sun PDF Author: Odysseas Elytēs
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ISBN: 9781852241209
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Odysseus Elytis (1911-96) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1979. With Seferis and the 'Generation of the Thirties', he introduced French Surrealism into Greek poetry. Kimon Friar's classic translation The Sovereign Sun begins with his brilliantly sensuous early poems. It has large selections from his master work, Axion Esti (1959), and includes the whole of his Heroic and Elegiac Song for the Lost Second Lieutenant of the Albanian Campaign (1945). His Nobel Prize citation stated: 'Against the background of Greek tradition, his poetry depicts with sensuous strength and clearsightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness.'

Epitaphios

Epitaphios PDF Author: Giannēs Ritsos
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ISBN: 9780992740962
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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On 10 May 1936 the 27-year old Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos saw a newspaper photograph of a woman weeping over the body of her son, a Salonica tobacco-factory worker killed by police during a strike. Two days later the Communist Party newspaper Rizospastis published a long poem by Ritsos. Dedicated 'to the heroic workers of Salonika' and drawing on the 14th century Greek Orthodox Epitaphios Thrinos, the poem combines Mary lament at Christ's tomb with popular Greek folk traditions of resurrection and Spring to create a universal lament sung by every bereaved mother.

Iconostasis of Anonymous Saints

Iconostasis of Anonymous Saints PDF Author: Giannēs Ritsos
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Category : Greek fiction, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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"This work of Ritsos, is it a novel with an emphatic question-mark added by the poet himself? Is it a 'roman fleuve' in the sense of Proust's 'Remembrance of Things Past?' Is it a wild prose-poetic fling in a 'sarcastic climate'? Or is it an autobiography of Greece's most human poet, whom Aragon hailed as the 'greatest poet of his time?' And what about the strange title? How are the established Orthodox saints, traditionally decorating the panels near the altar, how are they replaced by 'anonymous' human beings? -- everyday people from Ritsos' neighbourhood; members of his large family and simply inhabitants of Monemvasin; unassuming fellow-prisoners on exile islands and a closely-knit band of friends. All these 'anonymities' are skillfully counterpointed with the hero -- Ion -- and Ion's alter ego -- Ariostos -- and woven into a fascinating tapestry of reminiscences and reflections, vivid memories from childhood and adolescence, speculations on Greece's recent history, confessions bordering on psycho-analytical introspection, and, occasionally, surrealistic dreams. Ritsos' 'Iconostatis' is embellished with an almost Joycean richness of word, including outrageous puns, unprecedented, though ineffably 'poetic', erotica and miraculous flights of language. In the other two volumes, still to appear in English, Ritsos adds the finishing touches to his vast mosaic, bringing his visionary cycle full circle"--Publisher's description, vol. 1, back cover

Exile and Return

Exile and Return PDF Author: Giannēs Ritsos
Publisher: New York : Ecco Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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