Sketches for Electra - Sketches for Iphigenia - Sketches for Phaedra
Three ancient-themed sketches for three tragedies — that is, three adaptations and three applications of the "modes" of the Greek language — with all due respect to the tragedians, but also with the inevitable betrayal of our postmodern era, its music, and its theater. Another attempt to write beyond the "genres" of discourse and—embracing Nabokov's view that "every great writer is also a great deceiver, just as nature itself is"—to demonstrate that literature is an invention. And to seek "truth" or care about "meaning" with the hypocrisy of a revered yet popular Themistopoulos is an insult both to art and to truth. These three sketches premiered on stage in 2015, directed by Giannis Leontaris at the Kykladon Street Stage, and in 2025, energized by elements of electronic music composed by Dimitris Kamarotos during the Athens and Epidaurus Festival. So here is how Electra rages, Iphigenia does yoga, and Phaedra falls in deadly love. G.V.
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Sketches for Electra - Sketches for Iphigenia - Sketches for Phaedra
Three ancient-themed sketches for three tragedies — that is, three adaptations and three applications of the "modes" of the Greek language — with all due respect to the tragedians, but also with the inevitable betrayal of our postmodern era, its music, and its theater. Another attempt to write beyond the "genres" of discourse and—embracing Nabokov's view that "every great writer is also a great deceiver, just as nature itself is"—to demonstrate that literature is an invention. And to seek "truth" or care about "meaning" with the hypocrisy of a revered yet popular Themistopoulos is an insult both to art and to truth. These three sketches premiered on stage in 2015, directed by Giannis Leontaris at the Kykladon Street Stage, and in 2025, energized by elements of electronic music composed by Dimitris Kamarotos during the Athens and Epidaurus Festival. So here is how Electra rages, Iphigenia does yoga, and Phaedra falls in deadly love. G.V.
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Sketches for Electra - Sketches for Iphigenia - Sketches for Phaedra

Sketches for Electra - Sketches for Iphigenia - Sketches for Phaedra

by Giorgos Veltsos
Sketches for Electra - Sketches for Iphigenia - Sketches for Phaedra
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Sketches for Electra - Sketches for Iphigenia - Sketches for Phaedra

by Giorgos Veltsos

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Three ancient-themed sketches for three tragedies — that is, three adaptations and three applications of the "modes" of the Greek language — with all due respect to the tragedians, but also with the inevitable betrayal of our postmodern era, its music, and its theater. Another attempt to write beyond the "genres" of discourse and—embracing Nabokov's view that "every great writer is also a great deceiver, just as nature itself is"—to demonstrate that literature is an invention. And to seek "truth" or care about "meaning" with the hypocrisy of a revered yet popular Themistopoulos is an insult both to art and to truth. These three sketches premiered on stage in 2015, directed by Giannis Leontaris at the Kykladon Street Stage, and in 2025, energized by elements of electronic music composed by Dimitris Kamarotos during the Athens and Epidaurus Festival. So here is how Electra rages, Iphigenia does yoga, and Phaedra falls in deadly love. G.V.

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ISBN-13: 9786180714166
Publisher: S. Patakis
Publication date: 06/04/2025
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 56
File size: 461 KB
Language: Greek, Modern (1453- )

About the Author

Ο Γιώργος Βέλτσος γεννήθηκε το 1944 στην Αθήνα. Σπούδασε Νομικά στο Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης. Είναι διδάκτορας του Πανεπιστημίου Paris VIII και ομότιμος καθηγητής του Παντείου Πανεπιστημίου. Έχει γράψει δοκίμιο, θέατρο και ποίηση. Η γαλλική κυβέρνηση τον έχει τιμήσει το 2008 με τα διάσημα του Ιππότη της Τάξεως των Ακαδημαϊκών Φοινίκων και το 2012 με τα διάσημα του Τάγματος των Γραμμάτων και των Τεχνών. Διετέλεσε πρόεδρος του Εθνικού Θεάτρου και πρόεδρος της επιτροπής των Κρατικών Λογοτεχνικών Βραβείων. Από τις Εκδόσεις Πατάκη κυκλοφορούν τα ποιητικά του έργα MCMXLIV: Κανένας εαυτός (2019), Η Ανάληψις της Παρθένου (2021), Η καταστροφή της Μυκόνου το '22 (2023) και Ροή αέρα: Τετράδιο χειρωνακτικής γραφής (2024), το θεατρικό τρίπτυχο Σχέδιο για Ηλέκτρα - Σχέδιο για Ιφιγένεια - Σχέδιο για Φαίδρα (2025), καθώς και οι συλλογές κειμένων Το πρωτότυπο έχει χαθεί (2001) και Outre tombe: «Αλληλογραφία» με τον Γιώργο Χειμωνά (2008). Ποιήματά του έχουν μεταφραστεί στα γαλλικά, στα αγγλικά και στα γερμανικά.
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