SIGNED, 1991, Elytis Odysseas, Nobel, The Light Tree And The Fourteenth Beauty

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Οδυσσέα Ελύτη

Το φωτόδεντρο και η δέκατη τέταρτη ομορφιά

To Fotodentro ke i Dekati Tetarti Omorfia

 

Odysseas Elytis

The Light Tree And The Fourteenth Beauty 

One of Elytis’s masterpieces

Signed and Dedicated by Odysseas Elytis!

 

Printed by Ikaros in Athens in 1991

8vo, Pages 36

 

In original soft binding

Front piece and Cover by Nikos Nikolaou

Text: Greek

5th Edition

 

Odysseas Elytis pen name of Odysseas Alepoudellis, Greek: Οδυσσέας Αλεπουδέλλης; 1911 – 1996) was a Greek poet, man of letters, essayist and translator, regarded as the definitive exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world. He is one of the most praised poets of the second half of the twentieth century, with his Axion Esti  regarded as a monument of contemporary poetry. In 1979, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Source: Wikipedia