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Οδυσσέας Ελύτης
Άσμα ηρωικό και πένθιμο για τον χαμένο ανθυπολοχαγό της Αλβανίας
Asma Iroiko kai Penthimo gia ton Chameno Anthypolochago tis Alvanias
Αθήνα, Ίκαρος 1962
Odysseas Elytis
An Heroic And Funeral Chant For The Lieutenant Lost In Albania
First Edition, First Printing
One of Elytis's masterpieces
Printed by Ikaros in Athens in 1962
8vo, Pages 36
In original soft binding
Front piece and Cover by Yiannis Moralis
Text: Greek, Printed in 1500 Copies
Odysseas Elytis pen name of Odysseas Alepoudellis, Greek: Οδυσσέας Αλεπουδέλλης; 1911 – 1996) was a Greek poet, man of letters, essayist and translator, regarded as the definitive exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world. He is one of the most praised poets of the second half of the twentieth century, with his Axion Esti regarded as a monument of contemporary poetry. In 1979, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Source:…
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