Giorgos Leonardos - The Last Palaeologue

Book Title: The Last Palaeologue
Greek Title: Ο τελευταίος Παλαιολόγος
Author: Giorgos Leonardos
ISBN: 978-960-14-1644-1
Language: Greek
Year: 2007
Pages: 541
Publisher: Livanis "Nea Sinora" http://www.livanis.gr
Description: An historical novel that refers to the last Empire of the Byzantine, Constantine Palaiologos, based on the Venetian, Turkish and Greek sources.
The questions answered were, how much did the Byzantines fight the Ottomans to save Constantinople, and how much the Latin Catholics. Who traded Constantine Palaiologos and who raised the ottoman flag in the castle of “Vlahernon” while he was fighting in the central walls of the City. How much did the clergy resist the capture of the city or figh for their own tide to obtain privileges with the ottoman establishment. What happened after the fall of the Byzantine Empire……

Website:
http://www.gleonardos.gr/gleon_index_en.html

Stratis Myrivilis - Argonaftis - Post Avcisi

Greek original title: Αργοναύτης, Argonaftis
Turkish edition title: Post Avcisi
Author: Stratis Myrivilis (Mirivilis)
ISBN: 960-05-0212-9, Turkish Edition: 9789750708695
Year published: - (Last Turkish publication 1981)
Publisher: Estia (http://www.hestia.gr) Turkey Istanbul: Yalçın Yayınları
Translation in Turkey: Ahmet Yorulmaz
Description:
Öğrenci olan Andrea`nın babası, sahilde müşterileri yalnızca denizciler olan bir kahvehane işletmektedir. Her gün, okuldan sonra babasının kahvesine gelip geç saatlere kadar kalan Andrea, hem oranın elli yıllık garsonunun, hem de kaptan ve tayfaların birbirlerine anlattıkları denizcilik öykülerini dinleyerek zamanını geçirmektedir. Denizciliğe tutkundur. Ancak, babasını ve iki kardeşini denizde kaybeden annesi oğlu Andrea`nın denizciliğe merak sarmaması için öğütlerde bulunmakta, "Eğer beni seviyorsan hiçbir zaman teknelere adım atmayacaksın. En güvenilmez şey denizdir oğlum,demektedir. Dedesinin, iki dayısının başına gelenlere karşın kahvehanede dinlediği denizcilik öyküleriyle Andrea çoktan denizciliğe gönül vermiştir. "Altın Post" söylencesinin etkisinde, içten içe onu gidip bulma isteğindedir. Kafasına iyiden iyiye yerleşmiş bu söylence Andrea`yı büyük bir maceraya sürükleyecektir. Ve bir gün, akşam alacasında Andrea`nın büyük macerası başlar...


Andrea's father runs a seaside cafe that is frequently visited by sailors. Every day after school Andrea goes to the cafe and spends his time listening to the maritime stories of the captains, the crew and the waiter, who has worked there for the last fifty years. Andrea is passionate about seamanship. However, his mother, whose father and two brothers has died at sea, warns him not to take an interest in the sea, saying that the sea is the least dependable thing and that he should never step onto a boat. Despite what has happened to his grandfather and uncles, thanks to the maritime stories he keeps listening to at the cafe, Andrea has long set his heart on seamanship. Influenced by the legend of “The Golden Hide”, he longs to go and find it. This legend is destined to lead him to a big adventure. His adventure starts one night at dusk…

Stratis Myrivilis - Ζωή εν Τάφω - Hayat Mezarda

Greek original title: Ζωή εν Τάφω Zoi en Tafo
Turkish edition title: Hayat Mezarda (1968, 2006), Savaştan korkuyorum (1982)
English edition title: Life in a Tomb
Author: Stratis Myrivilis (Mirivilis)
ISBN: 960-05-0239-0, Turkish Edition: 975-571-136-8 English Editions: 1-932455-05-1
0-87451-391-Χ
Year published: 1924 (Last Turkish publication 2006)
Language: Greek - Turkish - English
Publisher: Estia (http://www.hestia.gr) Turkey Istanbul: Arıon Yayınevi
Translation in Turkey: Kriton Dinçmen
Description: This summary written by Stratis Myrivilis

Summary of the war book “Life in a tomb”
One student, full of patriotic and democratic ideals joins the revolution of the national defence and enlists the Archipelago Division, to fight «for freedom of the people and for the liberation of the enslaved Greeks and Democracy». His dreams turn into frustration with the barbarism he finds in the city of Monastirion in Serbia, and seeing what the allies have done to the Greek population of the city. Without faith in combat, without ideals, without believing in the honesty of war, he goes through a terrible crisis in the trench of the parapet of Monastirion, and describes the war with the sincerity of a man who faces death and does not want to lie neither to himself nor to others. After an adventurous life of battle, he is accidentally killed in a Bulgarian trench by a French flame-thrower. The book is a cry against the war between nations who do not hate each other, but are mobilized against each other by various political interests.

Stratis Myrivilis

Περίληψις του πολεμικού βιβλίου «Η Ζωή ένα Τάφω»
Ένας φοιτητής γεμάτος πατριωτικά ιδανικά και δημοκρατικά ιδεώδη προσχωρεί είς την επανάστασιν της Εθνικής Αμύνης και κατατάσσεται στην Μεραρχία Αρχιπελάγους δια να πολεμήσει «υπέρ της ελευθερίας των λαών και υπέρ της απελευθερώσεως των υποδούλων Ελλήνων και υπέρ της Δημοκρατίας». Τον περιμένουν αδιάκοπες διαψεύσεις των ονείρων του με τας βαρβαρότητας που ευρίσκει εις το Μοναστήριον της Σερβίας να κάμουν οι σύμμαχοι (υπέρ του οποίου επήγε να σκοτωθεί) είς βάρος του Ελληνικού πληθυσμού της πόλεως. Χωρίς πίστιν είς τον αγώνα πλέον, χωρίς ιδανικά, χωρίς να πιστεύει εις την τιμιότητα του πολέμου περνά τρομεράς κρίσεις μέσα εις το χαράκωμα της προκαλύψεως Μοναστηρίου, και περιγράφει την ζωήν του πολέμου με την ωμήν ειλικρίνιαν ανθρώπου ο οποίος ευρισκόμενος αντίκρυ στο θάνατο δεν θέλει να ψευσθεί ούτε προς τον εαυτόν του ούτε προς τους άλλους. Κατόπιν περιπετιεώδους πολεμικής ζωής σκοτώνεται κατά λάθος εις ένα βουλγαρικό χαράκωμα από ένα Γάλλον εξακοντιστήν του υγρού πυρός. Το βιβλίον είνε μια κραυγή εναντίον του πολέμου που γίνεται μεταξύ λαών που δε μισούνται αλλά κινητοποιούνται εναντίων αλλήλων από διάφορα πολιτικά συμφέροντα.

Στράτης Μυριβήλης

Various links:
http://worldliteratures.suite101.com/article.cfm/life_in_the_tomb
http://www.tulumba.com/storeItem.asp?ic=zBK339798DE587

Stratis Myrivilis - Vasilis o Arvanitis

Book title: Βασίλης ο Αρβανίτης, Vasilis o Arvanitis
Turkish title: Midilli'den Arnavut Vasil
English title: Vasilis o Arvanitis
Author: Stratis Myrivilis (Mirivilis)
ISBN: 960-05-0133-5, Turkish: 975-571-136-8, English: 0-85834-502-1
Year pubished: 1943 (Turkish publication 1997)
Language: Greek - Turkish
Publisher: Estia (http://www.hestia.gr) Turkey Istanbul: Belge.
Translation in Turkey: Cem Kaskarlı,
Description: A story at Ottoman times in Lesvos (Midilli) of Vasilis o Arvanitis. Giving the life and times of this hot blooded, young Greek through the brave short life he lived.

STRATIS MYRIBILIS was born in 1890 in the Skamia of Lesbos. Immediately after completing his circulars studies (1909) will start publishing the first literary texts in local forms of the island. In 1912 entered the University of Athens, the Faculty of Philosophy and Law, without ever taking a degree, a result of participating in the successive wars conducted by Greece at the time. Returning in 1923, after ten years of war, in Mitilini he produces the newspaper “Kampana”, in which he publishes in 42 issues the anti military novel “Life in a grave”. The 1932 he settles permanently in Athens with his family. In 1956 he is elected member of the Academy of Athens. Died on 19 July 1969. O Myrivilis Stratis, one of the leading representatives of the Generation of 30’s, gave us some of the greatest works of modern Greek prose of the twentieth century.

Stratis Myrivilis (1892)- (..1969) Asıl adı efstratios stamatopoulos olan, myrivilis midilli adasının kuzey sahilinde bulunan skamniya kentinde doğdu 1892 tarihinde. Lise öğrenimini tamamladığı midilli kentine gelene kadar köyünde kaldı. Atina üniversitesindeki hukuk öğrenimi balkan savaşları nedeniyle yarım kaldı. 1915 Yılında ilk yapıtını, “kızıl hikayeler”i yayınladı. Daha sonra birinci dünya savaşı ve türk-yunan savaşı sırasındaki deneyimleri, onun baş yapıtlarından biri sayıları ve 1924 yılında yayınlanan “mezarda hayat” adlı romanının temelini oluşturdu. Bu romanda savaşın bütün dehşeti yansır. 1933 Yılında “altın gözlü okul müdiresi”, 1949 yılında ise denizkızı madonna´yı yayınlanan “arnavut vasil” dışında iki kısa romanı daha olan myrivilis´in birçok kısa öyküsü daha bulunmakta. Myrivilis, italyan ve alman işgali karşısında direnişçi bir tavır sergiledi. 1943 Yılında alman işgali sırasında yayınlanan “arnavut vasil”de büyük bir heyecanla karşılandı. Myrivilis 1969 yılında atina´da öldü.

Το Χρονικό των Δέκα Ημερών - On Günün Günlügü - Agapi Molyviati - Venezi

Book title: Το Χρονικό των Δέκα Ημερών, Αiβαλί (Κυδωνίες) 1922
Turkish title: On Günün Günlügü
Author: Agapi Molyviati - Venezi
ISBN: Greek edition 978-960-201-189-8, Turkish edition: 975-9067-05-6
Language: Greek, Turkish
Year: First edition 1978
Publisher: ELIA (www.elia.org.gr) in Turkey Albatros Kitap, 2005, translation Kostas Sarioglou
Description: The personal testimony of Agapi Molyviati - Venezi the sister of the author, Ilias Venezis, about the 10 days she lived at the arrival of the Turkish army at Ayvali in 1922, witnessing all the incidents. And the exceptional, Turkish officer Kemalletin, who rescued her.
Comments: A painful book, that should be read both by Greek and Turks, to understand the darkness of the war, and the small light in the gap, enough for the next generation to follow.

Exerpt:
I do not know whether to pray or protest loud, whether to stay loyal to that taught or deny everything ... Why do humans have so much hate to humans?
Δεν ξέρω αν πρέπει να προσευχηθείς ή να βροντοφωνάξεις τη διαμαρτυρία σου, αν πρέπει να μείνεις πιστός σε ότι διδάχτηκες ή να αρνηθείς τα πάντα... Γιατί ο άνθρωπος έχει μισήσει τόσο πολύ τον άνθρωπο;

Ι shut my ears not to hear, not to hear voices. But these were no longer there. They penetrated deep inside…
Έκλεινα τα αυτιά μου να μην ακούω, να μην ακούω φωνές. Μα αυτές δε βρίσκονταν πια εκεί. Είχαν εισχωρήσει βαθιά.