Axion Esti, The

Odysseus Elytis author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press

Published:11th Nov '74

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Axion Esti, The cover

The Axion Esti is probably the most widely read volume of verse to have appeared in Greece since World War II and remains a classic today. Those who follow the music of Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis have been especially drawn to Odysseus Elytis's work, his prose is widely considered a mirror to the revolutionary music of Theodorakis. The "autobiographical" elements are constantly colored by allusion to the history of Greece, thus, the poems express a contemporary consciousness fully resonant with those echoes of the past that have served most to shape the modern Greek experience.

The Axion Esti [is] the work on which Elytis's reputation rests, and which almost certainly won him the Nobel Prize."―New York Review of Books

ISBN: 9780822953180

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104 pages