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Author : Thanassis Valtinos
Release : 2021-01-27
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Book Rating : 207/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Thanassis Valtinos: Early Works by : Thanassis Valtinos
Download or read book Thanassis Valtinos: Early Works written by Thanassis Valtinos. This book was released on 2021-01-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thanassis Valtinos
Release : 2016-06-28
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 037/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Orthokostá by : Thanassis Valtinos
Download or read book Orthokostá written by Thanassis Valtinos. This book was released on 2016-06-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1994 to a storm of controversy, Thanassis Valtinos’s probing novel Orthokostá defied standard interpretations of the Greek Civil War. Through the documentary-style testimonies of multiple narrators, among them the previously unheard voices of right-wing collaborationists, Valtinos provides a powerful, nuanced interpretation of events during the later years of Nazi occupation and the early stages of the nation’s Civil War. His fictionalized chronicle gives participants, victims, and innocent bystanders equal opportunity to bear witness to such events as the burning of Valtinos’s home village, the detention and execution of combatants and civilians in the monastery of Orthokostá, and the revenge killings that ensued. As a transforming work of literature, this book redefined established methods of fiction; as a work of revisionist history, it changed the way Greece understands its own past. Now, through this masterful translation of Orthokostá, English-language readers have full access to the tremendous vitality of Valtinos’s work and to the divisive Civil War experiences that continue to echo in Greek politics and events today.
Author : Thanassis Valtinos
Release : 2024-09-16
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 351/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Thanassis Valtinos: New Moon: Day One by : Thanassis Valtinos
Download or read book Thanassis Valtinos: New Moon: Day One written by Thanassis Valtinos. This book was released on 2024-09-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a tour de force of innovation, memory, and distillation, Thanassis Valtinos shifts the literary ground from yet another angle. Set in a provincial capital, in the penultimate throes of the Greek Civil War, New Moon: Day One is semi-autobiographical, a tale of two protagonists on the brink of manhood. They speak in bluntly human tones, but in precincts that echo of death the impulse to life is declared. In the very presence of Thanatos, Eros is adamant. The elements of a screenplay are recast by Valtinos as a novel. Interposed with bursts of dialogue, and reading like stage directions, intimate scenes alternate with a wide-screen view. Fade-outs, as blank pages, punctuate the whole. Though the gaze is that of a camera -- of pristine detachment -- the energy is propulsive. The thread of a breathless suspense is drawn through a complex collage. It seems to precisely catch the rhythm of human becoming. --Thanassis Valtinos
Author : Thanasēs Valtinos
Release : 1997
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 662/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Deep Blue Almost Black by : Thanasēs Valtinos
Download or read book Deep Blue Almost Black written by Thanasēs Valtinos. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories set in Greece. The title story is on the burden of memory, August '48 is on the Greek civil war that followed World War II, and Peppers and Flowerpots is a police interview during the 1960s military dictatorship.
Author : Artemis Leontis
Release : 1997
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Greece by : Artemis Leontis
Download or read book Greece written by Artemis Leontis. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-four short stories and prose poems by modern Greek writers. The subjects range from ancient mythology to World War, II to present-day surrealism. Fifth in a traveler's literary companion series.
