Modern Greek

>>9576851
Nah

I could never get the hang of translating it. I know the alphabet and could read it and write it but I don't know if I could sit down with a whole book.

>>9576851
There is one Greek anon here who recommended some poetry.

"I've read a bit of modern Greek poetry, in translation. I liked Cavafy so much that I read his entire poetic oeuvre (it's not that much). Then I read--and mostly enjoyed--some Elytis, Ritsos and Eggonopoulos, all in a modernist or surrealist vein. I haven't read any prose though and I'm not aware of any novelists other than Kazantzakis. Anything of any worth out there?

There's actually a really good learning from 0 podcast for modern greek called language transfer - it's a bit like micheal thomas but without his grungevoice and is imo generally better

check it out, gl :http://www.languagetransfer.org/complete-greek

for poetry check out Yannis Ritsos (the fourth dimention) for an older but great poet and Katerina Gogou (three clicks left and my name is odyssey - not sure about their translations) for a kinda darker modern poet

then for novels i really enjoy Manos Karagatsis (ten, youngerman) and Andreas Empeirikos (the great erotic)


however i have no clue about english translations of these things so there may be a chance you won't find some of these in a proper edition"

>>9576863
the whole thing about him bringing Turkish and Greek together because of the conflict in cyprus is really cool

any other cypriots on here?

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>>9576863
Papadiamantis should be added to that list and a good starting point for anyone wanting to read him would be his short story "Ονειρο στο kυμα" .

>>9576851
bump

Greeks don't have anything modern worth looking into. All of their arts are garbage.

>>9577451
i wouldn't say that
You should realy check out some poetry from Kalvos he is relatively unknown but his poems are the closest thing I've read to Pindar and i would say that he is up there with some of the major poets of 19th century.

Cavafy is excellent and I think appeals to typical /lit/ sensibilities.

Kazantzakis too, big Nietzsche influence there.

>>9577532
Seconding Cavafy.
I could personally do without the hunky sailors, but his Hellenistic/Roman/Byzantine bantz are absolutely top-tier.
OxfordWorld'sClassics has an excellent omnibus edition of the collected poems (2007/8; trans. Evangelos Sachperoglu) with parallel Greek-English text.

>typical /lit/ sensibilities
I miss the c.2015 Memedank/Ἑλληνισμός posting

>>9577451
then explain how Kazantzakis' Odyssey is better than the original

>>9578113
KKKazantzakis never wrote a single sentence worth reading and he was a literal cuck .

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>>9576851
Bumping for interest,

also this
>>9577451
"Greeks"