Deep Blue Almost Black: Selected Fiction - Hardcover

Thanasaes Deligiorgis; Jane Valtinos; Stavros Assimakopoulos

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810114909 ISBN 13: 9780810114906

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2006

Synopsis

In settings both rural and urban, and ranging across time from World War II to the present, Thanassis Valtinos contrasts the cheap and popular side of twentieth century Greece with the enduring sense of history of a proud and dignified people. With vivid language and powerful imagery, Valtinos addresses the major dislocations of three generations of Greeks in the face of profound political, social, and cultural change. Disillusioned urbanites and simple farmers alike are affected by the coups and political pressures of contemporary Greece, while at the same time they are moved by the primitive Greece of visions, ghostly apparitions and of saints' shrines in olive groves.

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Review

"Masterful . . . language and an unusually keen insight into the contemporary sensibility of his people." --Edmund Keeley
"Valtinos is light of touch, clear, precise, lucid. The story is clear on the page, undistorted by the prose of its telling. . . . This must be one of the best prose translations of the century." --Harvard Review
"Thanks to an idiosyncratic, always intriguing, and consistently challenging literary discourse, Thanassis Valtinos has established himself as the most successful and innovative contemporary Greek storyteller." --Modern Greek Studies
-Masterful . . . language and an unusually keen insight into the contemporary sensibility of his people.- --Edmund Keeley
-Valtinos is light of touch, clear, precise, lucid. The story is clear on the page, undistorted by the prose of its telling. . . . This must be one of the best prose translations of the century.- --Harvard Review
-Thanks to an idiosyncratic, always intriguing, and consistently challenging literary discourse, Thanassis Valtinos has established himself as the most successful and innovative contemporary Greek storyteller.- --Modern Greek Studies

About the Author

Thanassis Valtinos was born in Greece in 1932. A recipient of a Ford Foundation grant and an honorary fellow of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, Valtinos has won numerous awards for his innovative work. A member of the International Theater Institute and the former president of the Society of Greek Writers, he continues to write fiction and screenplays and to translate classical Greek drama for the theater. His novel Data Decade of the Sixties is also available from Northwestern University Press. Jane Assimakopoulos, an American writer and translator, lives in Ioannina, Greece. Stavros Deligiorgis is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Iowa.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0810114909
• ISBN 13: 9780810114906
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 116