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[...]","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b43807.jpg","isbn":"960-04-1202-2","isbn13":"978-960-04-1202-4","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":895,"name":"Modern Greek Writers","books_count":37,"tsearch_vector":"'greek' 'modern' 'writers'","created_at":"2017-04-13T00:57:20.275+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T00:57:20.275+03:00"},"pages":365,"publication_year":1996,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"14.0","price_updated_at":"2010-07-28","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Εικονοστάσιο ανωνύμων αγίων: Αρίοστος ο Προσεχτικός αφηγείται στιγμές του βίου του και του ύπνου του: Τι παράξενα πράματα: Με το σκούντημα του αγκώνα","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":43807,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/iconostasis-of-anonymous-saints-618fb82b-8462-4c02-82e7-4f8efb8f3742.json"},{"id":6140,"title":"Iconostasis of Anonymous Saints","subtitle":"Part Two: Maybe So, the Old Man with the Kites, not for you Only","description":"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 the 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 family and simple inhabitants of Monemvasia; unassuming fellow-prisoners on exile islands and a closely-knit band of friends. 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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 simple inhabitants of Monemvasia; unassuming fellow-prisoners on exile islands and a closely-knit band of friends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll 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' Iconostasis is embellished with an almost Joycean richness of words, including outrageous puns, unprecedented, though ineffably \"poetic\", erotica and miraculous flights of language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Part Three, Ritsos adds the finishing touches to his vast mosaic bringing his visionary cycle full circle.\u003cbr\u003eA.M.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b61602.jpg","isbn":"960-04-1945-0","isbn13":"978-960-04-1945-0","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":895,"name":"Modern Greek Writers","books_count":37,"tsearch_vector":"'greek' 'modern' 'writers'","created_at":"2017-04-13T00:57:20.275+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T00:57:20.275+03:00"},"pages":255,"publication_year":2001,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"14.0","price_updated_at":"2010-07-28","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Εικονοστάσιο ανωνύμων αγίων: Σφραγισμένα μ' ένα χαμόγελο: Λιγοστεύουν οι ερωτήσεις: Ο Αρίοστος αρνείται να γίνει Άγιος","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":61602,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/iconostasis-of-anonymous-saints-13fc5bd8-ac61-4328-996f-97a8b2d2ea14.json"}]