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ALICE KAPLAN
LOOKING FOR THE STRANGER. Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic
23,85€21,47€QUICK VIEWSince its publication in occupied France in 1942, Camus’s novel The Stranger has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. How did a young man, with little experience as an author, turn out a masterpiece? Alice Kaplan re-creates Camus’s lonely struggle with the novel that would place him among the major figures of modern literature.
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BASILEIOS A. KYRKOS
On the Further shore of the Enlightenment in modern Greece
The Unknown champions of National education18,90€16,07€QUICK VIEWThe Enlightenment in modern Greece, a composite field of study, influenced the entire history of modern Greece and, in many respects, still today defines our thoughts and actions.
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ELIAS SABETAI
Jews and Greeks
A Dialogue through the Ages32,50€29,25€QUICK VIEWThis publication is the first contribution to the study of Jewish-Greek cultural relations in Greek. This is perhaps the first time that the age-old spiritual conversation between the Jews and Greeks has been systematically analysed with reference to the available evidence, from the theological and historical perspective of a Greek Rabbi, with sensitivity and respect for both traditions.
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MARIA KARAVIA
The Thinker of Marousi
Memories and conversations with Yannis Tsarouchis29,68€25,23€QUICK VIEWThe memories of the journalistic friendship that developed between Maria Karavia and Yannis Tsarouchis. Their witty conversations over the course of twenty years (1967-1987) and a series of rare photographs.
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GIORGOS DOUATZIS
Giannis Dallas
To come out of myself …12,40€10,54€QUICK VIEWAn important figure in Greek Letters, the poet, essayist, translator and academic Giannis Dallas bares his soul to Giorgos Douatzis. In a pithy, exciting conversation and a biographical narration in the first person. In the endnote G. Blanas records all aspects of G. Dallas’s oeuvre. The publication also includes a full bibliography of Dallas’s writings and of reviews of these, unpublished photographs and a manuscript of the poet.
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GIORGOS DOUATZIS
Τhe broken game
Costas Axelos’s last interview9,54€8,11€QUICK VIEWIn a conversation de profundis, Costas Axelos speaks about man and society, love and philosophy, life and death. The publication includes an extensive curriculum vitae of the influential intellectual, a full bibliography of his works in Greek, photographs and a manuscript.