A tender story about three sisters coming of age in Greece over the course of three summers, now available after being out of print for over twenty years.“… That summer we bought big st
What if music could bring about a revolution all on its own? What power might reside in such a potent work of art, and what hauntings, private or collective, would it have to evoke? A meditation on lo
A collection of blistering, darkly humorous stories that upend the idyllic image of the Greek holiday island.Seeking to escape the paralyzing effects of the Greek economic crisis, a group of Athenian
A novel at once metaphorical and iconoclastic, The Parthenon Bomber exposes the painful and maddening paradox of contemporary Greece. “Blow up the Acropolis” was the 1944 call to action by the surre
Since the debt crisis hit in 2008, Greece has played host to a cultural renaissance unlike anything seen in the country for over thirty years. Poems of startling depth and originality are being writ
The book demonstrates that in the late 19th to early 20th centuries Darwinism and associated science strongly influenced celebrated Greek literary writers and other influential intellectuals in variou
The Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863–1933) is a towering figure of twentieth-century literature. No modern poet brought so vividly to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiq
Kiki Dimoula’s poetry?the most praised and prized in contemporary Greek literature?is a paradox, both mysteriously intricate and widely popular. Her magic lens defamiliarizes all that is familiar, com
An extraordinary literary event: Daniel Mendelsohn’s acclaimed two-volume translation of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy—including the first English translation of the poet’s final Unfinished Poems
The life and work of the late poet Manolis Anagnostakis (1925-2005) casts a long shadow over the literary, social, and political landscape of post-war Greece. The essays in this volume essays as well
The life of Nikos Kazantzakis--the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ--was as colorful and eventful as his fiction. And nowhere is his life revealed more fully or surprisingly
C.P. Cavafy (Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis) is one of the most important Greek poets since antiquity. He was born, lived, and died in Alexandria (1863-1933), with brief periods spent in England, Constan
Nasos Vayenas' poems manifest a quality of alert intelligence that is always refreshing, bracing and vital. They have been widely published in small editions and magazines all over the English-speakin
Engaging with the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Odysseus Elytis within the framework of international modernism, Marinos Pourgouris places the poet's work in the context of other modernist and surr
Cultural Politics, Socioaesthetics, Beginnings publishes books on sociocultural history, anthropology, literature, and critical theory, focusing on European---mainly Greek---traditions across histori
The Murderess is a bone-chilling tale of crime and punishment with the dark beauty of a backwoods ballad. Set on the dirt-poor Aegean island of Skiathos, it is the story of Hadoula, an old woman livin
George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis gave the Modern Greek language a substantial corpus of translations from poets working in French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, English and Ancient Greek. However, the
