Tasos Leivaditis' Triptych (eBook, PDF)

Battle at the Edge of the Night, This Star Is for All of Us, The Wind at the Crossroads of the World

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Collected here are the three poetry books with which one of Greece's finest writers, Tasos Leivaditis, made his literary debut in 1952-53. Greece was at this time emerging out of the devastating destruction of World War II and the subsequent civil war (1946-49). Leivaditis, on the side of the defeated leftists in the civil conflict, paid for his political affiliation by being exiled to concentration camps on various islands for more than three years. Upon his release in 1951, he was to publish in quick succession three remarkable volumes of poetry which draw upon his experiences of violence and persecution, but which are framed by a broader commitment to justice and freedom, love and peace. The three books were immediate successes, and continue to be widely read and discussed in Greece today. Now, for the first time, they are made available to an English-reading audience, who are sure to find in the depth and intensity of Leivaditis' verses a compelling witness not only to past terrors and tragedies but also to the irrepressible desire to vindicate life and love, because "this star is for all of us."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 110
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785278839
• Artikelnr.: 64031649

Autorenporträt

N. N. Trakakis is from Melbourne, Australia, where he teaches philosophy and writes and translates poetry. His translation of Tasos Leivaditis' Autumn Manuscripts (2020) was the joint winner of the 2021 New South Wales Premier's Translation Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

Translator's Note
Introduction
Battle at the Edge of the Night
This Star Is For All of Us
The Wind at the Crossroads of the World
Appendix I: 'Don't Take Aim At My Heart'
Appendix II: 'Literature On Trial'.