This book expands upon and complements my *Mikra Kavafika*. The main body consists of the text of three two-hour lectures delivered on 2, 4 and ― with Easter in between ― 18 April 1990, at the Vikelas Municipal Library in Heraklion, Crete. Without altering their spoken character, I have now reread the text carefully and made whatever corrections or additions I deemed necessary. I have included some further thoughts in footnotes. The most significant addition is the Epilogue.
In shaping the text into its current form, I received valuable assistance from the detailed comments and suggestions of my friends and colleagues Mariliza Mitsou and Michalis Pieris — even if I did not follow them in every instance. It would have been fitting to dedicate the following pages entirely to them. But I chose instead to dedicate this work to our respected and dear friend from Vikelia, Mr Menelaos Parlamas, who for a brief moment gave me the honourable illusion of a mutual apprenticeship.
From the foreword by G. P. Savvidis.
- Pages: 112
- ISBN: 978-960-7233-40-0
- Publication: 1993
- Dimensions: 20,5 x 13,5
- Categories: Books, Essays & Thought, Μελέτη
G.P. Savvidis
Scholar and professor of modern Greek literature. He began his studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Athens, but continued them at King’s College, Cambridge, and at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he was awarded a PhD in Philology in 1966 with the thesis The Cavafy Editions (1891–1932). He served as an adjunct professor of Modern Greek Literature at the University of Thessaloniki from 1966, he resigned for academic and ethical reasons in 1971 and returned in 1974 as a full professor for a further nine years (voluntary retirement). He served as a permanent visiting professor at the George Seferis Chair of Modern Greek Studies, Harvard University, from 1977 to 1984 (voluntary resignation).
His academic publications began in 1951, whilst at the same time he contributed to numerous publications (mainly To Vima and Ta Nea). He edited, in an exemplary manner, collections of poems by Seferis, Cavafy, Karyotakis, Sikelianos, Valaoritis, Daponte and others.
