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... Elytis , Open Book For one who has read as much of the work of Odysseas Elytis as has been brought into English from the original Greek , the mere mention of his name brings certain words and images leaping to mind : justice , liquidity ...
... Elytis , Open Book For one who has read as much of the work of Odysseas Elytis as has been brought into English from the original Greek , the mere mention of his name brings certain words and images leaping to mind : justice , liquidity ...
Page 88
... Elytis is far more interested in the origins and sources of mythology ( in the mechanism , to use his own term ) , than in the figures themselves . Like Hesiod , he draws on antiquity , adding his own gods and goddesses to an ever ...
... Elytis is far more interested in the origins and sources of mythology ( in the mechanism , to use his own term ) , than in the figures themselves . Like Hesiod , he draws on antiquity , adding his own gods and goddesses to an ever ...
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... Elytis , one is always entering another life . Unlike Seferis , who spent a lifetime struggling against melancholy , Elytis finds hope even in tragedy and heroism in the Beautiful . In his Open Book , he speaks of Matisse painting " the ...
... Elytis , one is always entering another life . Unlike Seferis , who spent a lifetime struggling against melancholy , Elytis finds hope even in tragedy and heroism in the Beautiful . In his Open Book , he speaks of Matisse painting " the ...
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The Necessity to Speak | 3 |
Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
The Degradation of Money | 27 |
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