Tasos leivaditis (3 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: New. On the morning of April 21, 1967, the people of Athens, Tasos Leivaditis among them, woke up to find that control of their country had been seized by a group of colonels, instituting what would turn out to be a seven-year-long military dictatorship. Following the brutal suppression of the mass uprising at the Athens Polytechnic in November 1973, Leivaditis published this book in February 1974, now translated for the first time in full in English. Employing the prose-poetry format that was to become his signature style, Leivaditis gives powerful voice to the sense of defeat and disillusion experienced by those whose hopes were being crushed by tanks and bullets: "Home and honour we had no more. / The women as always cried, and as always the men / looked down at the ground. And only the blind man smiled / as his cane, wise as it is, led him beyond futility / and into the darkness".…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. This is the first English translation of Tasos Leivaditis' short story collection, published originally in Greek in 1966. The book features nine stories, with an unnamed protagonist in each who seeks meaning and connection, or even a small friendly gesture, only to be met with indifference and humiliation, precipitating his downward self-destructive spiral.…

Zustand: New.