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Title: Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller ISBN: 0-8112-0109-0 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: February, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.79 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This book sent me to Greece for a year
Comment: Reading this book (along with a couple by Lawrence Durrell) in my early 20s was the impetus for my husband and me to quit our jobs, put our belongings in storage, sell our 2 cars, and take off with a couple of backpacks for Greece. Miller's ability to render the landscape and the people in the incomparable clarity of Greece's pure air is a rare talent. The Colossus of Maroussi is destined to be read for a long time, for it has a timeless power to transport the reader not only into the mind of the author but also into mind, heart, and soul of the Greek people. They could not have had a more loving and compassionate chronicler than Henry Miller.
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderfully written book!
Comment: As a Greek-American reading about Greece in Miller's account written in the 1930's, I found it to be very moving. It isn't simply a travel book about Greece, it's about Greece healing someone's soul!
I absolutely love Miller's, "Tropic of Cancer," and was expecting the same style for Maroussi. However, I was mistaken. Miller doesn't include any of his notorious womanizing stories here. Instead, Miller writes about finding peace in contemplating Greece, modern and ancient. Again, his written prose is like reading poetry. There are some passages from this book that I had to "cut out" and keep for inspiration.
I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Henry Miller or Greece. I must also recommend Edmund Keeley's, "Inventing Paradise," which is something of a companion to Maroussi. In it, Keeley discusses Miller's Greek journey, which he took along with George Seferis, Lawrence Durrell, and other 20th century Greek poets, writers, and painters.
Rating: 5
Summary: Thank you
Comment: Henry Miller is the "forgotten" genius of American literature, probably because of his political views and his attacks on the "perfect" protestant society. I admire him deeply so as a Greek (Hellenas) I was flattered to read such an inspired account on the idea and nation that is Greece. During his trip to my homeland, amongst the olive trees and the Mediterranean (sheer magic in her own right!), and with the company of a truly gigantic character he unravels the magic that is Greece and in essence enlightens us to the fact that the magic is still there and will be forever. A beautifully written book by a great American writer.
I think it was Goethe that said that "..from all the different cultures Greeks dreamed the dream of life the best"
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Title: Prospero's Cell: A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corcyra by Lawrence Durrell, Carol Pierce ISBN: 1569247668 Publisher: Marlowe & Co Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Dinner with Persephone : Travels in Greece by Patricia Storace ISBN: 0679744789 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 02 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: A Literary Companion to Travel in Greece by Richard Stoneman, E. Richard Stoneman ISBN: 0892362987 Publisher: J Paul Getty Museum Pubns Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Inventing Paradise : The Greek Journey, 1937-47 by Edmund Keeley ISBN: 0374177171 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 11 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (New Directions Paperbook, 161) by Henry Miller ISBN: 0811201074 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1978 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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