The Axion Esti
Author: Odysseus Elytis
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2014-08-05
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 0822980649
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.