Category: Reading Greece

📚📚Which are the challenges of turning classical literary works into graphic novels? Is there something from the original work that is lost in the process of turning it into a graphic novel? Do graphic novels constitute an effective way to introduce classical literary works to younger generations?

Stella Stergiou and Georgia Zachari spoke to Reading Greece about the challenges they faced while turning Alki Zei's classical novels "Wildcat under glass" and "Near the rail tracks" into graphic novels and the way graphic novels have motivated children to also read the original works.

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📌Ιt was on 17 July 1926 that Greek modernist poet Nikos Karouzos was born.

Considered one of the foremost Greek #poets of the twentieth century. Karouzos’s #poetry is conceptually dense, following ideas across history and culture as they collide and interweave, always boiling down to one word. Surveying the deadends of existential desolation, it is at the world-shaping order of art that Karouzos consistently pauses, meditating on its staying power.

His poems, many offering themselves as ‘music’ or ‘triptychs’, gravitate towards a host of figures (Plotinus, Bach, Modigliani, Rimbaud, Marx) as they bear witness to the transubstantiations of life and person into art. “Every word, taken as an alphanumeric, becomes the visual representation of the software of the reader in the poet’s memory”, in Dimitsis Kalokyris’ words.