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Six Nights on the Acropolis

Two women. A group of free-thinking friends. Sex. Poetry. Mysticism. At once a tragic love story and a tale of artistic maturation. A saga of sexual adventure played out in the Greek landscape: the Acropolis, illuminated by the full moon and the blazing midday sun; the streets, coffee houses and tavernas of Athens; a marble quarry quaking in the summer heat; islands with deserted caves and rocky seashores. A portrait of Athens, a chaotic modern metropolis seething with refugees after the Asia Minor Catastrophe of 1922, populated by a host of minor characters adding a tragic dimension, comic relief, and a hauntingly real sense of time and place. A bold, sometimes shocking, work of fiction by Nobel Laureate George Seferis, Six Nights on the Acropolis provides unique insights into Seferisâ"s artistic apprenticeship, personal experiences, and emotional growth. Writing in the guise of his novelâ"s protagonist, Seferis permits himself levels of honesty and intimacy about love, sex, and art not possible in his poetry, essays, letters or journals. â âSAn experimental novel that daringly combines elements of the Romantic European tradition of the Bildungsroman with the Anglo-American Modernism that Seferis was among the first and most influential to introduce into Greeceâ¦. Susan Matthias has done readers a great service by her spare, elegant, faithful and always readable translation of this most unexpected of twentieth-century literary novels

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 213
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781932455175
  • Genres
  • fiction, greece, poetry
  • Release date
  • 2007