Literature

Powerful and controversial from its 1895 publication to the present, "Jude the Obscure" scandalized Victorian critics, who condemned it as decadent, indecent, and degenerate. Between its frank portrayals of sexuality and its indictments of marriage, religion, and England's class system, the novel offended a broad swath of readers. Its heated reception led the embittered author to renounce fiction, turning his considerable talents ever afterward to writing poetry. Hardy's last novel depicts a changing world, where a poor stonemason can aspire to a university education and a higher place in society -- but where in reality such dreams remain unattainable. Thwarted at every turn, Jude Hawley abandons his hopes, is trapped into an unwise marriage, and pursues a doomed relationship with his free-spirited cousin, Sue Bridehead. The lovers find themselves equally incapable of living within the conventions of their era and of transcending its legal and moral strictures. Hailed by modern critics as a pioneering work of feminism and socialist thought, Hardy's tragic parable continues to resonate with readers.

‘An ode to love, to the families we build when our own families fail us. It broke my heart’ Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie BainJuno loves Legs. She always has, ever since she fought the bullies for him in their first encounter at school. Growing up on the estate is tough for them both, but as they emerge into the possibilities and underground parties of 1980s Dublin, they find a breathing space to begin their real lives. The two of them against the world. But what if the world has other ideas?‘A heartbreaker, and absolutely unforgettable’ Donal Ryan, author of The Queen of Dirt Island‘One of the finest writers that Ireland has produced. Juno Loves Legs will break your heart and stitch it right back up again’ Irish Sunday Independent

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The Camel gets his Hump, the Whale his Throat, and the Leopard his Spots in these bewitching stories that conjure up distant lands, the beautiful gardens of splendid palaces, and the jungle and its creatures. Inspired by Rudyard Kipling's delight in human eccentricities and the animal world, and based on bedtime stories he told to his daughter, these strikingly imaginative fables explore the myths of creation, the nature of beasts, and the origins of language and writing. They are linked by poems and scattered with Kipling's illustrations, which contain hidden jokes, symbols, and puzzles.

To kalá της Αν Πεντέρς είναι μια συνεχής αλληλεπίδραση των διασταυρούμενων αναζητήσεων, μια ποίηση που τρέφεται από την πολιτική, την ιστορία, τη γεωγραφία, τη φιλοσοφία, και διερευνά την έννοια της αναδρομής. Η γραφή ξετυλίγεται «εξ αποστάσεως», από το αλλού για το οποίο μιλάει (την Ελλάδα), ολοκληρώνεται όταν η συγγραφέας έρχεται για πρώτη φορά εδώ (Μάρτιος 2016), και από τότε ανοίγεται σε άλλα πράγματα (afto). Η απόσταση είναι το βλέμμα πίσω από την κάμερα όταν η συγγραφέας φτάνει στη «φανταστική χώρα». Είναι η ξαφνική αντιπαράθεση με αυτό που μας προσφέρεται να διαβάσουμε, αυτό που δημιουργεί εγγύτητα. Είναι η φυσική απόδειξη ότι κάτι που είναι ορατό ίσως δεν το βλέπουμε καθόλου. Αυτή είναι η καρδιά του θέματος. Μια προσπάθεια αποσαφήνισης... Φέρνει πίσω στο προσκήνιο το ζωντανό –και στην ποιητική γλώσσα– το καθολικό.

That is Acheron? A river in the north-west of Greece, in Epirus, which, in ancient Greek mythology, was the boundary between life and death. What is Kalamas? It too is a river, in the same region, which Byron associated with the Acheron in "Childe Harold`s Pilgrimage", and History, after a hundred and fifty years was to give it, and in a dramatic way, the same meaning.

What is "Kalamas and Acheron"? A cycle of stories, closely connected, which can be read as a novel, where the two rivers become the boundary not only between life and death, but also between human passions of enemies and friends, between utopia and reality, love and violence, joy and misery, past and present, nostalgia and revulsion, memory and fantasy. And finally, a boundary like a taut rope, on which human fate teeters in the balance.

"Kalamas and Acheron" is also the book that, when it was first published in 1985, won the First State Award.

Kaleidoscope: Poems in Bloom delights the senses through beautifully descriptive poems in concert with vivid watercolor images, to create a richly evocative visual experience rarely seen in volumes of poetry. The author's forty two poems reflect her passion for language and her keen observation of the flowering world both in the countryside surrounding her tiny village on the Greek island of Crete, and in the Minnesota of her youth. Following nature s seasonal flow, Kaleidoscope begins with a bouquet of springtime wildflowers, from the shy wild orchid that waves its tiny butterfly wings to the scarlet fringe of poppies adorning the fields of April and May. It then continues on to summer, honoring the survivors of searing heat ( nettles, thistles, thorns / those tough denizens of drought) and finally celebrates the turn to autumn. In Crete this is a time of ripening oranges and olives and also of new growth, as the long-awaited rains inspire the return of the pale pink cyclamen and the first glimpse of anemone, that tiny scrap of indigo silk. Unique among contemporary poetry books, almost every page of Kaleidoscope boasts a complementary watercolor image. Created by the talented artist Joan Elkins, these forty eight fluid images reflect the vibrant and fleeting life of flowers that inspire the poems themselves. The reader is invited to walk along with poet and artist and savor their shared visions of the flowering world.

Rudyard Kipling's epic rendition of the imperial experience in India is also his greatest long work. Born in India and growing into early manhood, Kim wants to play the "great game" of imperialism. He is also spiritually bound to the lama, an old ascetic priest. As the two men become fired by a quest that takes them across the country, Kim tries to reconcile these opposing impulses. A celebration of their friendship in an often hostile environment, Kim captures at once the opulence of India's exotic landscape and the uneasy presence of the British Raj.

Octavia E. Butler's ground-breaking masterpiece, with an original foreword by Ayobami Adebayo. 'The marker you should judge all other time-travelling narratives by' GUARDIAN'[Her] evocative, often troubling, novels explore far-reaching issues of race, sex, power and, ultimately, what it means to be human' NEW YORK TIMES'No novel I've read this year has felt as relevant, as gut-wrenching or as essential . . . If you've ever tweeted "All Lives Matter", someone needs to shove Kindred into your hand, and quickly' CAROLINE O'DONOGHUE--In 1976, Dana dreams of being a writer. In 1815, she is assumed a slave. When Dana first meets Rufus on a Maryland plantation, he's drowning. She saves his life - and it will happen again and again. Neither of them understands his power to summon her whenever his life is threatened, nor the significance of the ties that bind them. And each time Dana saves him, the more aware she is that her own life might be over before it's even begun. This is the extraordinary story of two people bound by blood, separated by so much more than time.

Portée par le développement de la presse, apparaît en Grèce, à la fin du XIXème siècle, une éclosion du genre de la nouvelle qui s’enracinera dans la littérature du pays et qui y demeure florissant. A côté de l’étude mœurs et de l’écriture réaliste se fait jour chez certains nouvellistes, sous l’influence de modèles étrangers comme Poe ou Maupassant, un attrait pour les diverses formes de l’irrationnel. C’est surtout au cours de la période qui va de 1880 à la fin des années 1920 que prend place dans les lettres grecques une «⁠ ⁠Grèce de l’étrange », envers du décor de l’image solaire et du ra­tionalisme généralement associés à cette terre méditerranéenne. La présente anthologie vise à donner un aperçu de cet aspect méconnu de sa littérature. Constantin Cavafis A la lumière du jour ♦ Nicolaos Episcopopoulos Ut dièse mineur ♦ Andréas Karkavitsas Le corail noir ♦ Ioannis Kondylakis Le chat noir ♦ Napoléon Lapathiotis L’ami mystérieux ♦ Pavlos Nirvanas Histoire d’un crime ♦ Alexandre Papadiamantis L’île d’Ouranitsa ♦ Zacharias Papantoniou Le faucon blessé ♦ Constantin Théotokis Caïn ♦ Dimitrios Vikélas Philippos Marthas ♦ Démosthène Voutyras Le chant du pendu