1948, NIΚOS NIΚOLAIDIS, THE THREE NAILS, First Edition, CYPRUS, EX LIBRIS STRATIS TSIRKAS

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Τυπογραφείο Κώστα Τσούμα Κάιρο 1948 (Copy No 224)

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NIKOS NIKOLAIDIS

The Three Nails

 

Printed in Cairo by Printing House Kostas Tsoumas in 1948

Here Copy No 224

First Edition

Ex Libris Stratis Tsirkas, also hand numbered with pencil

 

Pages 332 + 4

21cm x 15cm

Original Paper Binding

 

When the novel by Nikos Nikolaidis of Cyprus, The Three Nails, was first published in 1948, the critics greeted it with extraordinary praise. O. T. Papatsonis calls him “the Greek Dickens”. Myrtiotissa writes to him on 2/21/1949: “… It is the most real, the most humane book I have read… It is a pure Shakespearean drama, no, it does not resemble anything foreign, it is a Greek drama that you, the Greek, ‘brought it out as it is, from the depths of poverty and misery with all its mental languor with all its pain… It is a drama that you uprooted from the bowels of the so tortured Greek land , of the holy and thousand-child one!”. Stratis Tsirkas described it as “a novel that Balzac would have signed”, while Eleni Voiskou in her book “And tomorrow Nikos Nikolaidis. A milestone in our literature”, writes (p. 244): “The three nails are a literary achievement . Its main hero, Cassian, remains etched in our memory like the well-known heroes of the great authors of world literature.” (From the release presentation)

Nikos K. Nikolaidis (Nicosia, Cyprus, 1884-1956) was a Cypriot prose writer, one of the most important writers of the interwar period. He wrote a total of 25 short stories, novels, as well as poems and plays.

Stratis Tsirkas (pen name of Ioannis Hatziandreas) (Cairo 1911 – Athens 1980) was a Greek, writer among the most valuable prose writers of the post-war generation. In 1930 he befriended the writer Constantin Cavafy and wrote books about the great poet.

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