{"id":308,"date":"2015-12-29T18:54:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T17:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/1940s\/?page_id=308"},"modified":"2021-10-14T15:29:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T13:29:40","slug":"all-greek-to-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.univ-tlse2.fr\/1940s\/all-greek-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Knowing Greek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title of this page is, naturally, in homage to Virginia Woolf&#8217;s marvellous 1924 essay &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/ebooks.adelaide.edu.au\/w\/woolf\/virginia\/w91c\/chapter3.html\">On not knowing Greek<\/a>&#8220;. For some time now, my research has been on the poetry and politics of the British in Greece in the 1940s (and beyond). <em>Vaste programme<\/em>, but a very rewarding one &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000\">News<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.louvre.fr\/en-ce-moment\/evenements-activites\/paris-athenes-naissance-de-la-grece-moderne-1675-1919\">Paris-Ath\u00e8nes. Naissance de la Gr\u00e8ce moderne (1675-1919)<\/a>. Mus\u00e9e du Louvres, 30 septembre 2021-7 f\u00e9vrier 2022<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/history-classics-archaeology\/classics\/about\/leventis\/leventis-2021\/conf\">The Greek Revolution of 1821: Contexts, Scottish Connections, the Classical Tradition<\/a> (2021 Leventis Conference, Edinburgh, 18-21 November)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000\">&#8216;News that stays news&#8217;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/commedeslionsdepierre.net\/thefilm\/about\/?lang=fr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comme des lions de pierre \u00e0 l&#8217;entr\u00e9e de la nuit<\/a>, <\/em>a documentary film by Olivier Zuchuat about the Greek people interned on the island of Makronnisos 1947-1951. Among them were the poets Yannis Ritsos and Tassos Lividitis.The film is based on the anthology\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/salon-litteraire.linternaute.com\/fr\/poesie\/content\/1896317-l-amertume-et-la-pierre-poetes-du-camp-de-makronissos\"><em>L&#8217;Amertume et la pierre, po\u00e8tes au camp de Makonissos 1947-1951<\/em><\/a> (Editions ypsilon, Paris, 2013)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/smokestack-books.co.uk\/book.php?book=95\"><em>Epitaphios<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/smokestack-books.co.uk\/book.php?book=88\"><em>Romiosini<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by Yannis Ritsos and the anthology <a href=\"http:\/\/smokestack-books.co.uk\/book.php?book=87\"><em>Crisis<\/em><\/a> edited by Dinos Siotis, in bilingual Greek\/English versions from <a href=\"http:\/\/smokestack-books.co.uk\">Smokestack Books<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greecetravel.com\/matt-blog\/index.htm\">Manolis Anagnostakis<\/a> (1925-2005)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.franceculture.fr\/personne-angelique-ionatos\">Ang\u00e9lique Ionatos<\/a>\u00a0(1954-2021) on France Culture (podcastable)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Divers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A wonderful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publie.net\/categorie-produit\/publie-grece\/\">Greek Collection<\/a> of books translated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volkovitch.com\">Michel Volkovitch<\/a> and published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publie.net\">publie.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A Greek bookshop and publisher in Paris: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmos-grece.com\">Desmos<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A French-Greek bookshop in Athens: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lexikopoleio.com\/en\/\">Lexikopoleio<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Greek associations in Toulouse: <a href=\"http:\/\/cercle.toulouse.free.fr\">Cercle franco-hell\u00e9nique<\/a> and \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.horizonsgrecs.fr\/journal\/?lang=fr\">Horizons grecs<\/a><\/li>\n<li>J.D. 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