Life in the Tomb |
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| Author:
| Myrivilis, Stratis |
| Translator:
| Bien, Peter |
| Introduction by:
| Vryonis, Speros |
| Preface by:
| Calotychos, Vangelis |
| ISBN: | 978-1-932455-05-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2004 |
| Publisher: | Cosmos Publishing
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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"Life in the Tomb" has moments of great literary beauty and of more than one kind of literary power. In 1917, Myrivilis was twenty-five. ?Before I entered the trenches I had not the slightest inkling of life's true worth. From now on, however, I shall savour its moments one by one...' This... truthful fiction... [makes] one see... It is antiheroic and completely convincing. - Peter Levi[Peter Bien] has turned a Greek masterpiece into something not much less than an English one.- C.M....
More Description"Life in the Tomb" has moments of great literary beauty and of more than one kind of literary power. In 1917, Myrivilis was twenty-five. ?Before I entered the trenches I had not the slightest inkling of life's true worth. From now on, however, I shall savour its moments one by one...' This... truthful fiction... [makes] one see... It is antiheroic and completely convincing. - Peter Levi[Peter Bien] has turned a Greek masterpiece into something not much less than an English one.- C.M. Woodhouse, "Times Literary supplement"