A Book of Kostis

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A must-read for all with an interest in the modern history of Greece or the comparative study of state-formation.

The book's many virtues include the author's broad comparative perspective that makes possible a realistic understanding of the dramatic historical trajectory of a small nation, whose brilliant classical heritage has secured it the continuous attention and support of the modern West. The Making of Modern Greece "Covering the period from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, this book offers a highly readable, concise and thought-provoking account of the formation of the Greek state.

A bold, authoritative and well-informed introduction to modern Greek history, it eloquently demonstrates the advances of Greek historiography in recent years.

Books by Kostis Palamas (Author of The Twelve Words of the Gipsy)

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Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the 'Long 1960s' in Greece

AmazonGlobal Ship Orders Internationally. I'm not really "free-lance," if I can be picky, because my services are not for hire. I rarely do anything on an editor's suggestion--even journalism--in part because it takes more time to research an unfamiliar subject and then think about it profoundly, but mostly because the ideas of another person invite compromise, less of my integrity, than of my initial purposes. Almost everything I've written--from reviews through essays and books--was done on my own initiative.

As for overarching ideas, I think you'll find a recurring concern with doing what has not been done before--as a critic and a historian, and perhaps as a poet and fiction writer too; and this ideal would echo a predominant theme of my critical writing.

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I also try not to do any job that someone else can do better, and if I'm asked to do a writing or editing project, my first questionis whether or not it really belongs, so to speak, to someone else. And if it does, I'll offer it to him.


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I've given away all sorts of assignments, including several I originally initiated. What we call "absurd literature" embodies a very specific literary convention: At the end of Ionesco's The Chairs, a particularly neat model of the convention, a hired lecturer addresses a nonexistent audience in an indecipherable tongue.

This is the absurd surface. Since the lecturer's message is supposed to represent the final wisdom of a ninety-five-year-old couple, the meaningless message becomes an effective symbol for metaphysical void. The double paradox is that even anti-art inevitably reveals the influence of previous arts, as well as creates esthetic examples that shape future art. Perhaps because the ideas informing Dada were in essence quite simple, although original and unfamiliar to both art historians and most artists, its impact upon functioning creative intelligences was liable to be both quicker and more subliminal than the complex thought of, say, Wittgenstein's philosophy or contemporary physics; thus, I suspect that the Dada spirit has probably infiltrated all contemporary minds whose sensibility were susceptible, slipping, for instance, into the fiction of writers only dimly aware of the original work.

On second thought, however, this particular formulation of unfettered possibility ["there really exist no limits upon the kinds of fiction that can be put between two covers"] now strikes me as needlessly conservative, if not compromised, in one crucial respect; for if limits exist not to be respected but exceeded, why should fictions, even those created out of words, necessarily be printed on paper of uniform size and bound between covers?

And why should a writer piously accept the convention that all his words be printed in type of the same size and style and then laid in evenly measured and modulated greylines? Kostis will not be notified. Comments on discussion boards from Kostis will be hidden by default. Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Kostis. Kostis is Currently Reading. Kostis Tolios is currently reading. Second Foundation Foundation 3. Want to Read saving….

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