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"Timandra es una de las figuras femeninas más fascinantes de la antigüedad griega. Mujer de una belleza excepcional, supo congregar en su casa a las mejores mentes de su tiempo, desde Sócrates a Eurípides. Pero sobre todo trascendió por, como dicen las fuentes históricas, ser 'el éter espléndido que convivió con el héroe Alcibíades y recogió sus cenizas'. En esta novela de Theodor Kallifatides, considerada por su autor como quizá la mejor de ellas, es Timandra quien nos cuenta en primera persona su vida y la Atenas de su tiempo, en plena Guerra del Peloponeso contra Esparta. Figuras, lugares, tiempos, la Atenas del Ágora y puertos, gimnasios y campos de batalla: todo es real. Pero Timandra es mucho más que una novela histórica. El centro de gravedad es el amor: explorado, debatido, codificado -como era costumbre entre los griegos de la época-, aceptado siempre como regalo y condena, entre risas y lágrimas, en un simposio, un rito misterioso, a un minuto de la muerte."
Theodor Kallifatides (Author), Sara Iglesias (Narrator)
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Another Life: On Memory, Language, Love, and the Passage of Time
"A rewarding philosophical essay on memory, language, love, and the passage of time, from a Greek immigrant who became one of Sweden’s most highly respected writers “Nobody should write after the age of seventy-five,” a friend had said. At seventy-seven, struggling with the weight of writer’s block, Theodor Kallifatides makes the difficult decision to sell the Stockholm studio where he diligently worked for decades and retire. Unable to write, and yet unable to not write, he travels to his native Greece in the hope of rediscovering that lost fluidity of language. In this slim memoir, Kallifatides explores the interplay of meaningful living and meaningful work, and the timeless question of how to reconcile oneself to aging. But he also comments on worrying trends in contemporary Europe—from religious intolerance and prejudice against immigrants to housing crises and gentrification—and his sadness at the battered state of his beloved Greece. Kallifatides offers an eloquent, thought-provoking meditation on the writing life, and an author’s place in a changing world. "
Theodor Kallifatides (Author), Kevin Stillwell (Narrator)
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[Spanish] - Otra vida por vivir
"'Nadie debería escribir después de los setenta y cinco años', había dicho un amigo. A los setenta y siete, bloqueado como escritor, Theodor Kallifatides toma la difícil decisión de vender el estudio de Estocolmo, donde trabajó diligentemente durante décadas, y retirarse. Incapaz de escribir y, sin embargo, incapaz de no escribir, viaja a su Grecia natal con la esperanza de redescubrir la fluidez perdida del lenguaje.En este bellísimo texto, Kallifatides explora la relación entre una vida con sentido y un trabajo con sentido, y cómo reconciliarse con el envejecimiento. Pero también se ocupa de las tendencias preocupantes en la Europa contemporánea, desde la intolerancia religiosa y los prejuicios contra los inmigrantes hasta la crisis de la vivienda y su tristeza por el maltratado estado de su amada Grecia.Kallifatides ofrece una meditación profunda, sensible y cautivadora sobre la escritura y el lugar de cada uno de nosotros en un mundo cambiante. Grabado en español ibérico (España)."
Theodor Kallifatides (Author), Julio García Vélez (Narrator)
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"In this perceptive retelling of The Iliad, a young Greek teacher draws on the enduring power of myth to help her students cope with the terrors of Nazi occupation. Bombs fall over a Greek village during World War II, and a teacher takes her students to a cave for shelter. There she tells them about another war—when the Greeks besieged Troy. Day after day, she recounts how the Greeks suffer from thirst, heat, and homesickness, and how the opponents meet—army against army, man against man. Helmets are cleaved, heads fly, blood flows. And everything had begun when Prince Paris of Troy fell in love with king of Sparta Menelaus’s wife, the beautiful Helen, and escaped with her to his homeland. Now Helen stands atop the city walls to witness the horrors set in motion by her flight. When her current and former loves face each other in battle, she knows that, whatever happens, she will be losing. Theodor Kallifatides provides remarkable psychological insight in his version of The Iliad, downplaying the role of the gods and delving into the mindsets of its mortal heroes. Homer’s epic comes to life with a renewed urgency that allows us to experience events as though firsthand, and reveals timeless truths about the senselessness of war and what it means to be human."
Theodor Kallifatides (Author), Armando Durán, Kate Mulligan (Narrator)
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