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Alexandros Papadiamandis Edited by Lambros Kamperidis and Denise Harvey
Publication Data: Limni, Greece: Denise Harvey (Publisher), 2007 Format: softcover Number of Pages: xxviii + 337 Dimensions (l × w × h): 24.1 cm × 15.5 cm × 2.5 cm Additional Information: black-and-white illustrations ISBN: 978‒960‒7120‒23‒6
Alexandros Papadiamandis Edited by Lambros Kamperidis and Denise Harvey
Seventeenth Publication in The Romiosyni Series
“The short stories of Alexandros Papadiamandis are graced with an almost indefinable quality common to all great writers. This quality would seem to derive from an enthralment combined with a certain perplexity, an irresistible pull exerted by the author’s descriptions of a world of beauty and marvels which at the same time is filled with predicaments, human tragedies and humble triumphs. Like his contemporaries in the great European tradition of story-telling, Papadiamandis explores the souls of men and women as they succumb to or struggle against the power of evil—the Raskolnikovs, the Uriah Heeps and the Kareninas—people living on the edge of their capacity to deal with evil and who are tragically driven, by an irrational process, to the extremes of human vulnerability. Papadiamandis knew this European tradition intimately, learning his craft while translating many of the major authors of his time—Dostoyevsky, Chekov, de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet—as well as some of the minor literary figures, including Bram Stoker, Hall Caine, Bret Harte, Georges Ohnet, and although he himself objected to it, he was even compared by some of his contemporaries to Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Dickens, most likely because of the tragic tenor of his work and his habit of marking Christmas and Easter by turning out a seasonal story. His literary field of reference, however, extended far beyond the nineteenth century and along with Homer, Plato and Hesiod he also drew on Dante and Shakespeare, easily integrating scenes and passages from their works into his writing.” —“Introduction”
CONTENTS
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE INTRODUCTION EDITORIAL NOTE HANDMAIDEN THE GLEANER A VILLAGE EASTER BLACK SCARF ROCK POOR SAINT CIVILIZATION IN THE VILLAGE THE AMERICAN A PILGRIMAGE TO THE KASTRO CARNIVAL NIGHT THE MONK AT SAINT ANASTASA’S AROUND THE LAGOON FEY FOLK SHIPWRECK’S WRECKAGE THE EASTER CHANTER THE LADY’S HOUSE ENDNOTES GLOSSARY NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS MAP OF SKIATHOS
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