Portrait of a Greek Imagination An Ethnographic Biography of Andreas Nenedakis

Name: Portrait of a Greek Imagination An Ethnographic Biography of Andreas Nenedakis
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ISBN: 9780226329093

ISBN-10: 0226329097

ISBN-13: 9780226329093

Edition: 1997

Authors: Michael Herzfeld

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Anthropologist Michael Herzfeld first met Greek novelist Andreas Nenedakis in the drafty courtyard of a public library. This encounter led to an enduring intellectual relationship that prompted Herzfeld to reconsider both the contours of fiction and the nature of anthropology. Portrait of a Greek Imagination, part biography and part ethnography, is Herzfeld's contextualization of Nenedakis's life, as it was both lived and fictionalized. Herzfeld explores how personal vision intersects with national cultures by examining the Greek author's novels and recollections as historical accounts. Bringing together the methods of the novelist and the anthropologist in their common concern with both…

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List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/19/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 342
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English



Preface



Anticipations



Provincial Beginnings



Crete, Athens, the World



Disillusionments of Exile



Sentence of Death, Rebuilding of Life



Hand to Mouth: Portrait of the Artist as A Young Woman



Sordid Power: Colonels and Exiles



From the Cretan War to a Battle of Books



Painting an Ethnographic Portrait


References


Index