[{"id":124372,"title":"The Boundless Garden","subtitle":"Selected Short Stories","description":"Alexandros Papadiamandis (1851-1911) lived in the midst of an uncertain age of transition for modern Greece. It was a period of post-Enlightenment turmoil that followed closely on the heels of Greece's War of Independence, when the traditional old ways were being undermined and were fast disappearing under the pressure of the indiscriminate adoption of western mores and ideas. His reflections on and observations of some of the most complex facets of Greek life in both his native island of Skiathos and in urban Athens during this time define the modern Greek experience in a way unattained by any of his now forgotten contemporaries. His loving attachment to the old traditional ways have marked him out for some as conservative, even reactionary, but it was an attachment tempered with an innate and deep understanding of how the past breathes life into the present, an understanding which is as relevant in our times as it was in his.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe stories presented in this selection encompass the main and universal themes that best exemplify his work. In them he records and recreates that modern Greek experience as it was lived in its many perspectives - displacement, emigration, home-coming, estrangement, exile, attempts to reclaim lost innocence, visions of Paradise, the daily struggle for survival - and explores the souls of men and women as they succumbed to or struggled against the power of evil and dealt with life's ambiguities. Within these themes Papadiamandis also embraced the mythic past as it survived through people's belief in supernatural wonders and which animated the countryside with haunted ruins, nymphs and fairies and the sea with mermaids and Tritons. His was an authentic expression of a reality that he saw as a seamless whole in which man, whether or not he is conscious of it, spirits and the natural world all participate in a living liturgical now, ever moving towards their eternal source.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b126983.jpg","isbn":"978-960-7120-23-6","isbn13":"978-960-7120-23-6","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":335,"publication_year":2007,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"22.0","price_updated_at":"2008-01-14","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":126983,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/the-boundless-garden.json"},{"id":203224,"title":"This Dialectic of Blood and Light","subtitle":"George Seferis - Philip Sherrard An Exchange: 1947- 1971","description":"\"...this dialectic of blood and light\u003cbr\u003ewhich is the history of your people...\"\u003cbr\u003eSherrard to Seferis, 20 March 1950\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilip Sherrard first came across George Seferis's poetry when as a young man still in the army he was transferred to Greece in 1946. It made such a powerful impression on him that when he returned to England he started corresponding with Seferis, began translating his poetry into English, and ultimately decided to do his PhD on modern Greek poetry. Much later Sherrard was to translate, together with Edmund Keeley, Seferis's Collected Poems for Princeton University Press. The Seferis - Sherrard correspondence is not vast, but nevertheless revealing of both men's orientation, most particularly Sherrard's as he became increasingly interested in the Christian Orthodox East, and who simultaneously with his involvement in Greek literature and especially modern Greek poetry went on to write a number of important theological studies. Included with the correspondence are the texts that the two men sent to each other and three studies of Seferis's poetry written by Sherrard, the one published here for the first time. The book is introduced by the Emeritus Professor of Modern Greek at Oxford, Peter Mackridge, and the theologian Vincent Rossi, as well as by Sherrard himself in a text published here for the first time.\u003cbr\u003eFrom \"The Other Mind of Europe\", Philip Sherrard’s introductory essay to his correspondence with George Seferis:\u003cbr\u003e\"I still remember my bewilderment when Seferis sent me a letter in which occur such phrases as: \"I have a very organic feeling which identifies my human life with the life of nature\", and went on to speak of the Greek world - the world of Greek nature - as \"lines which occur and recur; bodies and features, the tragic silence of a face ... There is a process of humanization in the Greek light ... Just think of those cords that bind man and the elements of nature together, this tragedy which is at once natural and human, this intimacy. Just think how the light of day and man’s blood are one and the same thing. \"or when some passages from his diary were given to me, one of which read: I know that all my life will not be sufficient to express what I have been trying to express for so long: this union of nature with the simple human body.\" It is as if Seferis thought, not by discursive reasoning, but intuitively, in terms of natural objects, in terms of sensual images. It is as if the subject of his thought revealed itself to him not as an abstraction divorced from the rest of life, but in all its relationships not only to other ideas but to nature as well.’","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b206422.jpg","isbn":"978-960-7120-37-3","isbn13":"978-960-7120-37-3","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":11746,"name":"Ρωμιοσύνη","books_count":1,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosynh' 'rvmiosynh' 'rwmiosynh'","created_at":"2017-04-13T02:41:57.383+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T02:41:57.383+03:00"},"pages":416,"publication_year":2015,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"23.0","price_updated_at":"2015-12-21","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":206422,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/this-dialectic-of-blood-and-light.json"},{"id":159315,"title":"Cosmos, Life, and Liturgy in a Greek Orthodox Village","subtitle":null,"description":null,"image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b162325.jpg","isbn":"978-960-7120-25-0","isbn13":"978-960-7120-25-0","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":9761,"name":"Romiosyni Series","books_count":5,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosyni' 'series'","created_at":"2017-04-13T02:21:03.425+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T02:21:03.425+03:00"},"pages":510,"publication_year":2009,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"26.0","price_updated_at":"2011-01-19","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":162325,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/cosmos-life-and-liturgy-in-a-greek-orthodox-village.json"},{"id":159318,"title":"Cosmos, Life, and Liturgy in a Greek Orthodox Village","subtitle":null,"description":null,"image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b162328.jpg","isbn":"978-960-7120-26-7","isbn13":"978-960-7120-26-7","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":9761,"name":"Romiosyni Series","books_count":5,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosyni' 'series'","created_at":"2017-04-13T02:21:03.425+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T02:21:03.425+03:00"},"pages":510,"publication_year":2010,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"42.0","price_updated_at":"2011-01-19","cover_type":null,"availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":162328,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/cosmos-life-and-liturgy-in-a-greek-orthodox-village-5d1ed80b-2bc6-4d28-b7a4-e4a7e4a97727.json"}]