The book "The Cat in the Life and Works of Greek Writers", by the well-known Athenian writer and historian Kostas Ch. Chatzioitis, is an original and impressive anthology that brings together some of the most beautiful pages of Greek literature with cats as the main characters.
Almost all Greek writers, poets, and prose writers have dealt with cats, almost always approaching them with a friendly disposition and dedicating some pages of their work to them. Most of them, in fact, tenderly loved these unruly felines and included them in their lives.
The book includes poems and prose by Kostis Palamas, Emmanouil Roidis, Konstantinos Kavafis, Grigorios Xenopoulos, Zacharias Papantoniou, Giorgos Seferis, Kostas Varnalis, Nikos Gatsos, Nikos Kavvadias, and many other literary figures.
This richly… "feline anthology," the product of the author's years of meticulous research into the bodies of texts of our modern and contemporary literature, is sure to captivate every cat lover – and not only – bibliophile...
Contents
Foreword, ix
Christos Angelomatis, 1
William N. Abbott, 4
Gerassimos Anninos, 8
Babis Anninos, 15
Panagiotis Axiotis, 23
Renos Apostolidis, 26
Vasilis Argiroplous, 29
Kostas Varnalis, 31
Eleni Vlachou and Eleni Bistika, 35
Giorgos Bougiouklakis, 38
Argiris Vournas, 39
Dimosthenis Voutyras, 40
Anna Galanou, 44
Fotis Yofyllis, 47
Nikos Gatsos, 50
Polyvius Dimitrakopoulos, 52
Nikos Dimou, 54
Aimilios Eimarmenou, 59
Odysseas Elytis and Lefteris Alexiou, 62
Tasoula Heptakili, 64
Dimitris Evangelidis, 66
Takis Theodoropoulos, 72
Joseph Miltiadis, 76
Konstantinos Kavafis, 77
Nikos Kavvadias, 79
Marrianna Gr. Kampourogou, 82
Rigas Kappatos, 86
Napoleon Lapathiotis, 89
Dionysios Lavragkas, 93
Miltiadis (Miltos) Lidorikis, 94
Zisis Lorentzatos, 96
Petros Mandaios, 97
Telemachos Maratos, 100
Stefanos Martzokis, 104
Dimitris Mitropoulos, 105
Spyridon Miliarakis, 106
Michail Mitsakis, 108
Kostis Bastias, 115
Nestor Mnemon, 117
Pavlos Nirvanas, 121
Doros Doris, 130
Lefteris Xanthopoulos, 137
Grigorios Xenopoulos, 138
Nikos Xydakis, 154
Georgios Oikonomopoulos, 156
Kostis Palamas, 158
Alexandros Pallis, 160
K. Papagiannopoulos, 162
Zacharias Papantoniou, 164
Giorgos Pappas, 167
Yiannis/Phaethon Pouskoulelis, 169
Emmanouil Roidis, 171
Alekos Sakellarios, 183
Giorgos Seferis, 185
Georgios Soursis, 191
Dimitris Tangopoulos, 193
Ilias Tantalidis, 195
Evgenios Trivizas, 198
Yiannis Chatzinis, 207
Leukadios Hearn, 210
Yiannis Chondrogiannis, 215
Dimitris Psathas, 217
A beloved haunt of writers: the cafe "The Black Cat", 221
An impressive book with photographs of cats: "Cats of the Greek Islands", 223
The cat as a title of magazines, 224
Proverbs with cats, 228
Bibliographic note, 229
In conclusion: an unexpected experience, 230
