readings

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

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