Presentation of Works by Giannis Efstathiadis

Feb 9, 2012

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Presentation of Giannis Efstathiadis' "Anthropoi apo lexeis" and "Prosopolatries", in cooperation with Melani Publications....

Prosopolatries (Personality Cults) is a collection of 27 personal essays on the life and work of artists and writers such as Seferis,Sinopoulos, Carouzos, Dimoula, Daskalopoulos, Papadiamantis, Engonopoulos, Skalkottas, Theophilos, Ganas, and Triantafyllidis.

Anthropoi apo lexeis (Men Made of Words), which borrows its title from the poem by Wallace Stevens, consists of three novels, Epsilon for Eros, The Sardine will Swim in the Can, and Don Juan. Each novel gravitates around men who are ‘constructed’ of words that are related to each specific theme: love (Epsilon for Eros), intrigue and mystification (The Sardine will Swim in the Can), deterioration of human relations (Don Juan).

Speakers:
Achilleas Kyriakidis, author – translator
Dinos Siotis, poet
as well as the author himself
Brief excerpts will be read by the authors:
Haris Vlavianos, Michalis Ganas, Dimitris Kalokyris, Yannis Kontos
Costas Mavroudis, Manolis Pratikakis and the painter Eleni Kalokyri

Giannis Efstathiadis was born in Athens in 1946. He has published poetry, novels, short essays on music under the pen-name Apikios as well as gastronomic texts. He is also a music producer in State Radio Program - Trito Programma (Third Program).

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Artist	Giannis Efstathiadis
Organizer	Hellenic American Union, Melani Publications
Venue	Hellenic American Union Theater
Start Date	09/02/2012
End Date	09/02/2012
Starting Time	20:00
Type	Talk - Presentation
Participants	Achilleas Kyriakidis, Dinos Siotis, Haris Vlavianos, Michalis Ganas, Dimitris Kalokyris, Yiannis Kontos, Costas Mavroudis, Manolis Pratikakis, Eleni Kalokyri
Languages:	EL
Interpretation Provided:	No
Registration Required:	No
Reservation Required:	No
Admission Fee	Admission is free