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Title: Dinner with Persephone : Travels in Greece by Patricia Storace ISBN: 0-679-74478-9 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 02 September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.68 (38 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not a newyorker
Comment: I have been living in Greece for the past 15 years. Ms. Storace's book captures the beauty of the natural enviroment in rich, creative language which does credit to her poet's background.
She is very perceptive and witty in pointing out such negative aspects as religious excesses, male chauvinism etc. On these matters, she voiced my sentiments.
The author aspires to present an analysis of Greek politics, history, mentality of people etc. Here I think she tries to bite more than she can chew because doing your homework is not the same as being a scholar.
The quotations from conversations with Greeks, consisting of extremely long, pompous monologues seem rather contrived to me and I have a lurking suspicion that sometimes the author is projecting her own ideas of how Greeks think.
Finally the negative is presented (astutely) to the exclusion of the positive. Ms. Storace is aghast at the differences she encounters eg at the fact that Greeks regard circumcision as mutilation (it's not routinely practiced on newborn males by the medical profession except in the US and a few anglosaxon countries).
The author is very provincal, definitely not a newyorker accustomed to mingling with cultural differences since childhood.
Dolores
Rating: 5
Summary: A thought-provoking meditation on modern Greek life
Comment: Poet and essayist Patricia Storace's meditations on a year spent living and traveling in Greece is simply fascinating. Dinner with Persephone can almost be read as a series of sketches of contemporary Greek life--a form that suits her instincts as a poet well.
Other reviewers have referred to her as cynical; as a Greek-American woman, I think that she has, in many ways, captured some of the contradictions of the modern Greek "character," and our continuing struggles to define ourselves to our satisfaction. Also to her great credit, Storace explores the Byzantine heritage of Greece. (How many writers have ignored Orthodoxy and the Byzantine legacy in favor of its classical history?)
A must-read.
Rating: 3
Summary: JUST OKAY
Comment: The prose is lovely. Ms. Storace is a published poet and this shines through in her prose. I think, however, that this is not a positive portrait of Greece and its people. Many Greeks offered their generous hospitality to the author and I don't think it is proper to repay them by trashing their beliefs and ways.
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Title: Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller ISBN: 0811201090 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: February, 1988 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Greece: A Traveler's Literary Companion (Traveler's Literary Companion , No 5) by Artemis Leontis ISBN: 1883513049 Publisher: Whereabouts Press Pub. Date: July, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Olive Grove: Travels in Greece by Katherine Kizilos ISBN: 0864424590 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Summer of My Greek Taverna : A Memoir by Tom Stone ISBN: 074324771X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 06 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: ZORBA THE GREEK by Nikos Kazantzakis ISBN: 0684825546 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 20 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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