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Most modern Greek writer, most distinctly Greek, Pentzikis assembles his pieces so that, beginning in alienation, with the recalcitrance and transience of things, the casual cruelties of space and time, they reach out, through the luminous orthodox immanences of the past, the reverberations of hisotrical memory, towards an inclusive desity of present experience. And the wonder lies, the beauty, in the way that the sense, looming in the endlessly modulatig density of style, the orthodox presence of the city.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b6451.jpg","isbn":"960-04-1425-4","isbn13":"978-960-04-1425-7","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":145,"publication_year":1998,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"9.0","price_updated_at":"2010-07-28","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Μητέρα Θεσσαλονίκη","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":6451,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/mother-thessaloniki.json"},{"id":18548,"title":"The Builders","subtitle":null,"description":"Giorgos Heimonas was born in Kavala in 1938 and died in Paris in 2000. He studied psychiatry at the University of Athens and the University of Paris, and he lived in both Athens and Paris; he has worked as a professor, physician, and author. His mysterious and moving narratives made him one of Greece's most renowned contemporary writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo enter into a Heimonas text is not so much to read the written word as to experience it. His characters repeatedly suggest that the word of their experience flows through the body toward the lips but never reaches speech. Accordingly, Heimonas creates a metamorphosed language and a genre which are neither poetry nor fiction in a conventional sense yet share certain qualities of each. In \"The builders\" the protagonist is the herald of a new order of speech and feeling. The text suggests that we cease, as it were, to listen to experience with our neighbour's ear; rather we should feel the world through a sort of language of the nerves. Thus, the narrative does not articulate an idea or situation so much as pulse with sensations of pain, joy, discovery. The feeling of existence becomes its meaning. In Heimonas' words, the world becomes an image and humanity itself the message.\u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b19160.jpg","isbn":"960-04-0485-2","isbn13":"978-960-04-0485-2","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":63,"publication_year":1991,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"7.0","price_updated_at":"2010-07-28","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Οι Χτίστες","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":19160,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/the-builders.json"},{"id":18547,"title":"Koula","subtitle":null,"description":"A \"brief encounter\" on the Athenian Underground brings together two people, Koula and Dimitris, from entirely different backgrounds and ages. For a few weeks they manage to break loose from their respective shackles and meet in a kind of no man's land of passionate discovery. The couple's emotional fluctuations are charted with remarkable precision and subtlety, in a low-key tone that fully captures the muted drama of their meeting and parting.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b19159.jpg","isbn":"960-04-0484-4","isbn13":"978-960-04-0484-5","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":79,"publication_year":1991,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"7.0","price_updated_at":"2010-07-28","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Η κυρία Κούλα","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":19159,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/koula.json"},{"id":18546,"title":"Astradeni","subtitle":null,"description":"\"Gradma Eleni says it's my name, Astradeni, that's to blame, because Astradeni means 'the one who binds the stars.' And who, other than a fairy creature, can bind the stars? I don't tell anyone this, of course...\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSymi, the small island near Rhodes, is where the eleven-year-old heroine of this novel grows up, until financial reasons oblige the family to move to Athens. Astradeni leaves behind a close-knit community, a natural setting that stimulates her imagination, and a rich store of traditional values in which both religion and magic lore have their place. The author lets her tell her own story with winning charm and candour in a style that allows her sensitivity and the sparkle of her intelligence to shine through.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA born storyteller, Astradeni supplies vivid details of the life and human relations on a remote Aegean island, as well as her efforts to adapt to the hard and alienating conditions of city life. For beneath the surface charm of a young girl's narrative the reader is in fact witnessing a painful process of social change, the violence done to the sense of values of individuals experiencing an abrupt transition from a traditional agrarian culture to a competitive, industrialised society of consumers.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b19158.jpg","isbn":"960-04-0483-6","isbn13":"978-960-04-0483-8","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":239,"publication_year":1992,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"12.0","price_updated_at":"2010-07-28","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Αστραδενή","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":19158,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/astradeni.json"},{"id":18550,"title":"Jaguar","subtitle":null,"description":"The author has called \"The Jaguar\" an extravagant story.\" He employs an extravagant style to stress the irony of his heroine's attempt to preserve a false image of her moral superiority in the process of promoting selfish ends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe historical events referred to in Dimitra's of herself and her family belong to the Second World Wi1r period. Dimitra, a mathematics teacher, had been an active member of the leftist resistance movement during the Nazi occupation of Greece and was persecuted as a communist in the civil war that followed. Years later, she likes to think, of herself as an uncompromising individual engaged in a noble struggle to promote the ideals of a socialist revolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe unexpected return of her sister-in-Iaw Philio from America to claim an inheritance forces her to take a good look at the past. Her breathless interior monologue throughout the night of her confrontation with Philio reveals Dimitra's obstinate refusal to accept the \"bourgeois\" compromises she has meanwhile made and has been comfortably living with for the past ten years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe extravagant melodrama of Dimitra's rhetoric often becomes a caricature of dialectic reasoning, a comic version of double-think paring reality to make it fit within the confines' of wishful thinking and self-righteousness. When the verbal torrent is finally spent., the comedy fades leaving a bitter after-taste of the pathos of self-deception.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn native South American religion the jaguar was regarded as a fierce deity representing forces of war, destruction and human sacrifice.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b19162.jpg","isbn":"960-04-0486-0","isbn13":"978-960-04-0486-9","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":143,"publication_year":1997,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"7.0","price_updated_at":"2010-07-28","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Ιαγουάρος","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":19162,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/jaguar.json"},{"id":62781,"title":"The Joy is in the Journey","subtitle":null,"description":"This \"healing\" book plunges the reader in a world full of sea, colours, light and cool breeze that portray the many facets of Greek life, and at the same time gives simple, every day, apparently unimportant facts their real value. \"Whoever derives pleasure from small things always wins the lottery in life\", says the aged heroine who, born in the midst of the Smyrna Disaster of 1922, was rescued from the flames and brought to live in one of the Aegean islands where she found a second home and a loving family. As she spins out for us the difficulties she has had to face in her life, she initiates us to the most difficult art of all, the art of living. A precious initiation in our times of stress and alienation \u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b64496.jpg","isbn":"960-04-1988-4","isbn13":"978-960-04-1988-7","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":337,"publication_year":2001,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"15.0","price_updated_at":"2010-07-28","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Ο δρόμος είναι η χαρά","publisher_id":10,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":64496,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/the-joy-is-in-journey.json"}]