
Kostas Varnalis's Papers
The Poet's Workshop and History (text in modern Greek and English)
Theano Michailidou(Editor)
American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Publisher)
Published on 31. August 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
168 pages
978-960-86960-9-9 (ISBN)
Description
Kostas Varnalis (1884-1974) was a Bulgarian-born Greek writer and member of the demoticist movement in Greece. An important contemporary of Angelos Sikelianos and Nikos Kazantzakis, Varnalis's floruit as a poet was in the interwar period. His most important texts constitute an ingenious "distortion" of powerful precursors such as Aeschylus, Plato, Xenophon, Aristophanes, Solomos, Rabelais, Goethe, and Flaubert. This issue of The New Griffon presents for the first time an in-depth view of this poet's literary work and life through his letters and papers, given to the Gennadius Library by the poet's daughter in 2001. Theano Michailidou provides an introductory essay on the work of Varnalis and his archives, and another (in English) on Varnalis as a poet, prose writer, and critic. The complete catalogue of the Varnalis Archives forms the core of this volume, including a useful index of personal names and a series of evocative historical photographs of Varnalis.
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Language
English
Other
Place of publication
Athens
Greece
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
40 b/w figs
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
402 gr
ISBN-13
978-960-86960-9-9 (9789608696099)
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Theano Michaelidou, a longtime scholar of Kostas Varnalis's work, received her doctorate in Modern Greek Studies from the University of Birmingham.