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Just before his death, Tynellos, the renowned bard of the 8th century BC, narrates his life to his grandson: His childhood years on the shores of Ionia, his joining the entourage of the timeless bard Anavatis, his passage through Mycenae and the Olympic Games, his loves, travels, and transformations. The pleasures he tasted, the passions and misfortunes he inadvertently caused...
Both dramatic and humorous, insatiable and whimsical, Tynellos - the grandfather of Homer - is at once a hero and the ancestor of Don Quixote as well as Gargantua. The Words - Wings is a novel of wandering in a world that proves to be far more familiar, juicy, and colorful than we have been led to imagine...
Returning to the time when myths were still being shaped, X.A. Chomenidis speaks allegorically about the supreme power of narration. The universe takes on meaning and form only when we recount it. The title Words-Wings could be a translation of the Homeric `epēa pteróenta`. Or a paraphrase of the biblical `In the beginning was the Word`...
[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
Manufacturer
- Author
- CHristos A. CHomenidis
- Publisher
- Patakis
- Publishers
- Patakis
- Type
- Prose
- Subtitle
- Novel
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 370
- Release Date
- 5/2009
- Publication Date
- 2009
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789601633220
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