Inventing Paradise: The Greek Journey, 1937-1947 [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

Keeley, Edmund

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ISBN 10: 0374177171 ISBN 13: 9780374177171

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999

Riassunto

The radiant light of Greece-its landscape and poetry-as witnessed in the dark years when it was almost extinguished.

In the looming shadow of an oppressive dictatorship and imminent world war, George Seferis, George Katsimbalis, and other poets and writers from Greece's fabled Generation of the Thirties welcomed Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell to their homeland. Together they explored the Peloponnesus, swam off island beaches, and considered the meaning of Greek life and freedom. They seemed to be inventing paradise. In this evocative synthesis of personal memoir, literary criticism, and interpretative narrative, Edmund Keeley explores the poetry, friendships, and politics that made those extraordinary encounters so vital.

For Miller and Durrell, the journey into Greece transformed their art and their lives, and in response they wrote some of their most important work. For the Greek poets, it reconfirmed their sense of the vitality of their own country and helped to sustain them during the harsh seasons to come. As Keeley shows, their eloquence, courage, and dedication kept the greatness of Greece alive when the German occupation, a violent civil war, and the depredations of mass tourism threatened to destroy it. Other writers later drew on the invented paradise of these good friends and reimagined it for the future. This remarkable work of cultural history and imaginative criticism is a crowning achievement from one of our finest literary interpreters.

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L'autore

Edmund Keeley taught creative writing, English literature, and Hellenic studies at Princeton University (1954-94). The author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, he has translated a number of modern Greek poets. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Book by Keeley Edmund

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• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0374177171
• ISBN 13: 9780374177171
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 289