<p>The memoirs of the great Greek shadow puppeteer and his history of the art of Karagiosis. His father was blinded by a stone falling on him while he was working as a laborer on the Acropolis. His mother took in washing. After the accident he led his father out begging during the days. At night he sneaked off to the shadow theater which was thought unrespectable. Karagiosis became his great passion. He worked first as a puppeteer's assistant and was able to start on his own when a neighbor gave him a sheet. This he made into a screen which he slept beside outdoors at night so that it would not be stolen. He made his own puppets, scenery, signs, wrote his own plays and performed them with the help of a singer. Memoirs describes his beginnings, the 1914-18 war, the coffee houses all over Greece where he performed and became famous, World War II and the German Occupation. History and Art of Karagiosis tells the main schools of shadow puppetry, the best known puppeteers! -- 'Antonis Poriotis. A good player but he died of too much wine in 1938. It gives the main karagiosis characters and lists the best-known plays. The book is illustrated with Spatharis' own shadow figures.</p>

Behind the White Screen (Greek Fiction and Memoirs)

Biographies & Memoirs

Spatharis, Sotiris

Arts & Literature

Red Dust, Inc.

The Byzantine Wall Paintings of Crete (Art)

Arts & Photography

Kalokyris, Konstantin

History & Criticism

Four post World War II German poets, the natural descendants of Rilke, Brecht and Kafka Gunter Eich (1907-1972) is a pastoral poet but nature is no longer trustworthy reassuring-- Unrest in field furrows and elderbush. the incomprehensible in the heart Perfection does not thrive, here no one binds the unruly

Four German Poets: Gunter Eich, Hilde Domin, Erich Fried, Gunter Kunert

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

<p>Poems in this collection come from several volumes published in the German between 1969-78. Stuart Hood wrote-- "Fried's poetry is remarkable because it expresses a spectrum of feeling in which there is no dividing line between the political and the personal". Fried was a radical unattached to any party or ideology "Hear O Israel/ when we were the persecuted/ I was one of you/ How can I remain one when you become the persecutors" This volume won the Prix des Sept in 1978.</p>

100 Poems Without a Country (German Poetry)

Fried, Erich

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Pinget, Robert

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