Presentation of the emblematic work Under Milk Wood by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, in the translation of Efi Fryda and Pavlina Pampoudi, published by Nikas Editions
The work is the author’s swan song; Thomas died in 1953 in the United States during a tour in which he performed the text live for audiences. He began writing the piece in his adolescence and completed it shortly before his untimely death. Its first presentation was on BBC radio, where he was then employed. Guided by two narrators who lead us through a small fishing village in the Welsh countryside, the story unfolds over a single 24-hour period, weaving together a poetic world rich in resonances, alliterations, intentional syntactic deviations, and musical rhythm.
Speakers:
Walter Puchner, Professor Emeritus, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, poet
Panagiotis Roilos, Professor of Modern Greek Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, President of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi
Efi Fryda, translator and author
Pavlina Pampoudi, poet and translator
Excerpts from the work will be performed by actors Kostas Kastanas, Konstantinos Kyriakou, and Katerina Bilali.
The event will be accompanied by musical interludes composed especially for the occasion and performed on ancient Greek lyre by composer and lyrist Nikos Xanthoulis.The conversation will be moderated by Walter Puchner.