Greeknesses brings Yiannis Ritsos into Arabic through a translation that captures his everyday relation to history, land, and the collective memory of modern Greece. The book turns around poems in which apparent simplicity opens onto dense political and emotional experience, whether in Romiosini or in the texts of exile and ordeal. The value of this translation lies in presenting one of the major poets of the twentieth century to Arabic readers without separating his lyric force from its historical and militant context.
Greeknesses (Ellinika)
إغريقيات
Notes
Translation of Ρωμιοσύνη (Romiosini) + exile poems (1967). Title إغريقيات likely mediated through French "Grécité". Year disputed: 1995 (al-Hayat, Goodreads) vs 1996 (Abjjad). No ISBN found. 64 pages per Goodreads.