Ontmoeting met persephone een jaar in Griekenland - een jaar in Griekenland - Patricia Storace
een jaar in Griekenland
KORTE INHOUD
Poet and essayist Storace creates a lively, richly textured, anecdotal synthesis of the glorious - and inglorious - modern Greece. Fending off aggressive Greek men, negotiating with near-comic bureaucracies, visiting the spectacular Greek islands, Storace insinuates herself into quotidian Grecian life - all the while recording a wryly perceptive impression of the land of constant disputation and anomaly. (...) Distressing for Storace is the pervasive subordination of women (TV programs, she notes, frequently feature knocking women about as a prelude to love-making); yet the society is also one of maternal worship, and Storace encounters a surprising tolerance for transvestism. Beyond its sexual contradictions, however, Storace perceives a counterintuitive cultural layering, a people whose seemingly conflicting Classical, Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman influences survive in unremarked combination. (Writing of the language from hymns heard at a Lenten ceremony honoring the Virgin: 'Like Persephone, Mary is a di...
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1998Uitgever: Singel UitgeverijenVertaler: H. Meyer412 paginasTaal: NederlandsISBN-10: 9052265712ISBN-13: 9789052265711Helaas, laatste exemplaar van deze editie is recent verkocht!
