The Oxopetra Elegies and West of Sorrow

by: Odysseas Elytes

Author: Odysseas Elytes

Translated by: David Connolly

Publisher: Harvard Department of the Classics

Series: Harvard Early Modern and Modern Greek Library

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Format: Hardback

Publication date: 30 June 2013

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ISBN: 0674063430 ISBN 13: 9780674063433

The Oxopetra Elegies and West of Sorrow by Odysseas Elytes

The Nobel Prize was awarded to Elytis in 1979 "for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness." This volume contains translations of two late collections, the second published months before his death in 1995. Top page

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This volume contains translations of two late collections by Odysseas Elytis (Nobel Prize for literature, 1979). According to the official announcement of the Swedish Academy, the Nobel Prize was awarded to Elytis "for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness." The "Oxopetra Elegies", which he published in November 1991 at the age of eighty, was immediately hailed as one of his finest works. Far from being a dialogue with death, as many critics hastily concluded, these elegies are laments for what is seen and perceived in certain "timeless moments" that, like the Oxopetra headland, project into the beyond, into another reality, revealing truths that, to the poet's constant dismay, remain "unverifiable" and "unutterable." The poems here function as a "contemporary form of magic," a key opening the portals to this other reality, at least for those who speak Elytis' language: the language of the Secret Sun. In "West of Sorrow", published in November 1995, only months before his death, it becomes even clearer that his poetry remains, as it always was, a paean to life and love and beauty. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Harvard Department of the Classics

Pages: 150

More info: height 203 mm width 133 mm weight 666 gr thickness 15 mm

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Age recommended: College/higher education

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC23) 889.132

Record updated at: 23 March, 2013 time: 04:19

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