The great festivals of Christmas, New Year and Lights are an important source of narrative inspiration for the leading Greek classical writers.
Together with the leader of our ethnographic prose, Alexandros Papadiamantis, in a common epic path are Yannis Vlachogiannis, Stefanos Dafnis, Penelope Delta, Nikos Karvounis, Andreas Karkavitsas, Napoleon Lapathiotis, Emmanuel Lykoudis, Alexandros Moraitidis, Pavlos Nirvanas, Antonis Traulantonis, Christos Christovasilis and many more writers.
On the occasion of the oppressive atmosphere created by the Christian holidays and the local customs and traditions, but without forgetting the daily life of human relationships and different characters, the great prose writers sometimes transfer to paper their personal fiction and sometimes incidents that either they themselves experienced, or communicated to them through the oral accounts of other persons. The events take place sometimes in the Greek countryside and sometimes in the urban landscape of the big cities, sometimes in conditions of peaceful coexistence and sometimes in conditions of war. However, the short stories are always distinguished for their masterful plot, for the descriptive sharpness of their images and for the dynamic delineation of their heroes.
Twenty-four selected masterpieces, transcribed into the modern Greek language with respect to their original writing, with footnotes where these are deemed necessary, with an accompanying CD for readers unable to access the printed form, are offered to the modern readership as a trigger to get to know the emerging messages from the roots of Greek literature.
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