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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Life in the Tomb by Stratis Myrivilis Stratis Myrivilis. Efstratios Stamatopoulos [lower-alpha 1] (30 June 1890 – 19 July 1969) was a Greek writer. He is known for writing novels, novellas, and short stories under the pseudonym Stratis Myrivilis . [lower-alpha 2] He is associated with the "Generation of the '30s". [1] He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times (1960, 1962, 1963). [2] Contents. Biography [ edit | edit source ] Myrivilis was born in the village of Sykaminea (Συκαμινέα), also known as Sykamia (Συκαμιά), on the north coast of the island of Lesbos (then part of the Ottoman Empire), in 1890. [3] There he spent his childhood years until, in 1905, he was sent to the town of Mytilene to study at the Gymnasium. In 1910 he completed his secondary education and took a post as a village schoolmaster, but gave that up after one year and enrolled at Athens University to study law. However, his university education was cut short when he volunteered to fight in the First Balkan War in 1912. After the Balkan Wars, he returned home to a Lesbos free from Turkish rule and united with the motherland Greece. There he made a name for himself as a columnist and as a writer of poetry and fiction. He published his first book in 1915: a set of six short stories collected together under the general title of Red Stories . In World War I, Myrivilis saw active service in the army of Eleftherios Venizelos' breakaway government on the Macedonian front and also in the Asia Minor Campaign which followed. He returned to Lesbos in 1922, after the Campaign's catastrophic end. On 28 June 1920 he married Eleni Dimitriou. They had three children. From April 1923 to January 1924, Myrivilis published, in serialised form, the first version of his First World War novel Life in the Tomb in the weekly newspaper Kambana . A longer, revised version was published in Athens in 1930, and almost overnight, Myrivilis became famous throughout Greece. Life in the Tomb established him as a master craftsman of Greek prose, and the work itself was seen as a turning point in the development of Greek prose fiction, marking its coming of age. [4] After the success of Life in the Tomb , Myrivilis settled in Athens where he worked as editor of the newspaper Demokratia . The newspaper ceased publication after one year however, and he made a living writing columns and short stories for various newspapers and periodicals. In 1936, he was made General Programme Director for the Greek National Broadcasting Institute—a post which he held until 1951, excluding the period of German occupation when he resigned after a final broadcast in which he reminded the Greek people of their noble resistance to the Italian invasion of Greece and called on them to continue resisting with dignity and unity. After the occupation, he was given a post in the Library of Parliament and, in 1946, he founded the National Society of Greek Writers and was elected its first president. During the Greek civil war he became one of the most strong opponents of the communists. In 1958, after having been nominated unsuccessfully six times, he was finally made a member of the Academy of Athens, a belated recognition of his important contribution to Greek literature. ISBN 13: 9781932455052. "Life in the Tomb" a war novel written in journal form by a sergeant in the trenches, has been the single most successful and widely read serious work of fiction in Greece since its publication in serial form in 1923-1924, having sold more than 80,000 copies in book form despite its inclusion on the list of censored novels under both the Metaxas regime and the German occupation. Published in nearly a dozen translations, it is the first volume of a trilogy containing "The Mermaid Madonna" and "The Schoolmistress with the Golden Eyes, both of which have been available in a variety of languages. "Life in the Tomb" has moments of great literary beauty and of more than one kind of literary power. In 1917, Myrivilis was twenty-five. "Before I entered the trenches I had not the slightest inkling of life's true worth. From now on, however, I shall savour its moments one by one. " This. truthful fiction. [makes] one see. It is antiheroic and completely convincing. - Peter Levi [Peter Bien] has turned a Greek masterpiece into something not much less than an English one. - C.M. Woodhouse, "Times Literary supplement" "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Shipping: US$ 3.77 Within U.S.A. Other Popular Editions of the Same Title. Featured Edition. ISBN 10: 0704300397 ISBN 13: 9780704300392 Publisher: Interlink Publishing+group Inc, 1987 Softcover. Cosmos. 2004 Softcover. Customers who bought this item also bought. Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace. 1. Life in the Tomb. Book Description Condition: New. book. Seller Inventory # M1932455051. Greatest Greeks. An online archive of the greatest Greeks in history. Recent Posts. Photios Theon of Smyrna Apollodorus of Damascus Stilpo Chrysostomos of Smyrna Dimitri Nanopoulos. Archives. Categories. (139) (38) (48) (50) Recent Comments. DR STAN SAVAS on Constantine XI Palaiologos Theon of Smyrna… on Archytas Theon of Smyrna… on Eudoxus of Cnidus Theon of Smyrna… on Plato Telemachus Odysseide… on Isidore of Miletus & Anthe… Στατιστικά. 84,880 επισκέψεις. Stratis Myrivilis. Writer (1890 – 1969) Stratis Myrivilis’ true name was Eustratios Stamatopoulos. He was one of the most important representatives of the Generation of the 30’s, a generation of writers, artists and scholars who flourished during the first half of the 20 th century. Myrivilis belongs to the generation of Greeks who lived all the major wars fought by Greece, developed a deep patriotic esteem and made Greece reach an internationally recognised level in literature. He participated as a volunteer in the 1 st and 2 nd Balkan Wars, where he was injured. Later, he fought in the 1 st World War and the Greco- Turkish War of 1919-1922. He settled in Athens and worked in a number of newspapers, radio stations and as a librarian in the Greek Parliament. He founded the National Society of Literary Writers of Greece as well as the Greek Society of Literary Writers. Myrivilis was primarily noted for his novels and short stories. His first novel, Ἡ Ζωὴ ἐν Τάφῳ ( Life in Tomb ) in 1924, was written during the Balkan Wars and was about the atrocities of war, which Myrivilis had personally experienced. It was followed with The Schoolmistress with the Golden Eyes in 1933, which tells the story of a man returning from war and falling in love with his friend’s widowed wife and The Mermaid Madonna in 1948, a story about the struggle of the refugees from Asia Minor to find a new home in the island of Lesbos. All three of his novels have powerful anti-war messages. A big part of his work consists of short stories, novellas, essays and children’s books. Most of them were translated into foreign languages and gained worldwide followers. Characterized by a strong sense of realism, lyricism and tradition, Myrivilis drew inspiration from his own life experiences and from Hellenism, the eternal source of influence. He believed very much in the Megali Idea (the Great Idea), the liberation of the subjugated Greek territories and as a patriot, he strongly opposed communism. Myrivilis was awarded the National Prize of Prose in 1940 for his novella The Turquoise Book . In 1958 he became a member of the Academy of Athens while in 1959 he was honoured with the Order of George I. He was nominated three times for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960, 1962 and 1963. Η Ζωή του Μεγάλου μας Πεζογράφου . Στράτης Μυριβήλης. Stratis-myrivilis.weebly.com. Web. Στράτης Μυριβήλης 1890 -1969. Σαν Σήμερα. Sansimera.gr. Web. Κοινοποίηση: Like this: One thought on “ Stratis Myrivilis ” Hi. John Philoponus was not Greek, and Plotinus was from upper Egypt. Recently, some enthusiastic Greeks alleged St Anthony was Greek. As an Alexandrian Coptologist, I have respect for Greeks, many are married into my family. The Greek Consul in Alexandria is dean of the diplomatic Corpus, because we feel Alexandria was Egyptian and Greek simultaneously, and that mathematics is Alexandrian (not Greek). By the way, Euclede is for sure Alexandrian, but Kline confirms , but if he worked on conic sections, where could he find them other in Alexandria. Of course intellectuals of third world nations are looking for assurance, You cannot acquire by imagination. I love the Mythical Greece. Greek Thebes (of Seven gates) was a simulation of the glorious Thebes of 100 gates. Stratis Myrivilis. Efstratios Stamatopoulos, better known by the pseudonym Stratis Myrivilis, was born in the village of Sykamnia on the north coast of the island of Lesbos in 1890.[1] There he spent his childhood years until, in 1905, he was sent to the town of Mytilene to study at the Gymnasium. In 1910 he completed his secondary education and took a post as a village schoolmaster, but gave that up after one year and enrolled at Athens University to study law. However, his university education was cut short when he volunteered to fight in the 1st Balkan War in 1912. He was wounded twice, in the leg, at the battle of Kilkis in 1913 and was taken to a hospital in Thessaloniki where one bullet was removed. He played host to the other (as he used to put it) for sixteen years—it was not removed until 1929. After the Balkan Wars, he returned home to a Lesbos free from Turkish rule and united with the motherland Greece.