ANDREI KOURKOF, Gray Bees, translated by Dimitris Triantafyllidis, Kastaniotis publications, p. 426 The book was written in 2018, translated into German in 2019, once again making Andrei Kurkov the most translated Russian-speaking Ukrainian author in the West.In Greece, the novel was slow to be translated: it was published in March 2022, as soon as the … Read more
AESCHYLOU, Persians, translated by Giorgos Blanas, directed by Savvas Stroumpos, Tuesday, July 11, at the Vrachon Theater in Byron The Persians they are played out in the landscape of Nemesis (moment of divine wrath and vengeance). The earlier stages of the terrible triptych of the ancient Greek tragedy Hybri (violent, insolent and arrogant attitude) and … Read more
We could say that cybernetics is the age when the prophets died and algorithms took their place A machine is capable of learning. A few days ago a great event was held at the bookstore Cobrawhich was organized by the bookstore and Editions Colleagues. The event was about the presentation of the book The government … Read more
Despite the extreme conditions at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, a remarkable number of organisms manage to survive In the depths of the Pacific Ocean, in a vast area, where the light of the Sun does not reach, many mysterious sea creatures live. Only 10% of the organisms that live there have been studied … Read more
Of particular interest is the integration of the discourse on the Union into the political programs of the Left in Greece and Cyprus NIKOS CHRISTOFIS (ed.), Between Nation and Class: Leftists and Cypriots, 1920-1974Tsophides publications, Thessaloniki, p. 376 One of the most important difficulties that the Left had to face over time in Greece, Cyprus … Read more
TASSOS PORPHYRIS, The endurance of dreams, Panopticon publications, Thessaloniki 2023, p. 252 The maenad of annihilation, particularly aggressive now through the constructed “rules” of artistic recognition, has not left poetry unaffected in the postmodern historical time we are going through: extortionate readings, “intelligence” of readers, intellectual consumption, poverty of historicism on which spiritual consumption is … Read more
Of course, we are already in a new cultural condition, where different and eccentric artistic and reading examples are emerging A poetry full of ideas is not something new, and we have enough such examples, such as that of Byron Leontaris or that of Stefanos Rozanis, that we should consider them as reactions to the … Read more