Book by John Lucas
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Lucas went to Athens in 1984 for a year, to teach English Literature at the university. As for many writer before, Greece steadily became the longed for country of his imagination, yet he was also able to see her flaws ... thoughtful but never forced observations make this perhaps the finest account of a love affair with Greece since Peter Levi s The Hill of Kronos. It ought to be compulsory reading for anyone who orders moussaka and chips in Corfu next summer. --James Owen, The Daily Telegraph
Lucas is clearly a man with a gift for friendship, with the result that we feel he gets under the skin of the country... He recreates many conversations, quietly revealing of Greek reality. This is not English travel writing in the baroque tradition of purple passages and virtuoso erudition. His Greece is the contemporary one of moonlighting lecturers, laundrymen, waiters, odd-job men, whose dignity he celebrates with sympathetic understanding. --Nicholas Murray, The Independent
Delightful... an energetic academic and poet, Lucas spent the year 1984-85 as visiting professor in the English department at the University of Athens...Whether describing bureaucracy at the university, the delights of Babi s taverna, politics, poets or Easter on the island of Aegina (where he and his wife later became part-time residents) Lucas is unfailingly observant, trenchant and appreciative... a sharp personal portrait of modern Greece. --John de Falbe, The Spectator
Greece has always had its admirers, though none seems to have cherished the Athenian tavernas, the murderous traffic and the jaded prostitutes, the petty bureaucratic tyrannies, the street noise and the heroic individualists with the irony and detachment of John Lucas. Lucas' love for the realities of Greece finally banishes the banality of a half-century of tourism.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.
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