By Geōrgios M. Vizyēnos
ISBN-10: 0874514436
ISBN-13: 9780874514438
English translations of the six longer tales by way of Georgios Vizyenos, whose fiction either describes past due 19th-century Greece and appears past it to question the very nature of truth.
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Venetia Georas who read through my first attempts and provided necessary suggestions and corrections: without her the work would never have been completed. Others have helped in various important ways. Kyriake Mamone, herself editor of Vizyenos' works, helped with many of the more difficult terms. Peter Bien gave the manuscript a thorough reading and provided numerous helpful suggestions, most of which I have accepted and which have proved most beneficial. Roderick Beaton both authored the foreword, and in reading the entire work, improved the translation.
Plans for our future were formed and reviewed in the evening by the hearth. My older brother was to learn our father's trade so as to take his place in the family. I was destined, or rather wanted, to Page 13 leave home, and so forth. " Our money problems reached a peak when a drought hit the area and food prices went up. But our mother, instead of despairing about supporting just us, increased our number by one, an unrelated girl whom she managed to adopt after protracted attempts. That event transformed the monotony and austerity of our family life and introduced some new liveliness.
When my mother had memorized her mournful lesson, she took two rubiédes from the corner of her kerchief and gave them to the Gypsywe still had enough at that time. Then she placed bread and wine in front of him and whatever other food was handy. And while he ate down below, my mother went upstairs and repeated his lament to herself so as to fix it in her memory. And it seems she found it very beautiful, for as the Gypsy was about to leave, she ran after him and made him the gift of a pair of my father's good trousers.
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