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The Culture of the Crisis

In Greece of recession and unemployment, the area of ​​art and creation employs more than 100.000 people

How many people are currently employed in the field of culture?; According to the research of "Vima", based on official agency records, more than 100.000. That's how many people do theater, music, cinema, visual arts, book, those who work in cultural institutions, private and public enterprises, festival, art schools, the technical staff and in general those employed in… behind.
Obviously this number doubles on a practical basis. A very large crowd that is active around culture, the "poor relative" or otherwise one of the biggest victims of the crisis, which, however, participates with a percentage 2,8% in the Gross National Product. The fund is minus and the cuts in the field of culture compose a rather gloomy landscape. Only in the field of music, the Hellenic Society for the Protection of Intellectual Property AEPI is registered 12.746 members. From them 9.051 they are artists. For its part, the Organization for Collective Management of Works and Speech (OSDEL) counts 3.000 authors, translators and others working in the book field, number multiplied by ten. Specifically, according to the words of those in charge, the number of those who have written cat’ exclusivity or have participated in the creation of a work during the last ten years amounts to 55.000 people. According to the Hellenic Statistical Authority, the total number of employees (businessmen, artists, technicians, administrative staff, other workers, taxi companies etc.) in state and municipal theaters over time 2010-2011 it was 4.284, while the number of artists who participated in group exhibitions the 2011 5.755.
In the field of cinema approx 1.700 people work at festivals, 980 employed in distribution companies and 360 in movie theaters, according to the Hellenic Film Center. Six hundred are the members of the Union of Greek Cinema and Television Technicians and 180 the members of the Union of Screenwriters of Greece. Always according to the Hellenic Film Center 100 short and feature films were shot on 2011. Despite our efforts, the Society of Greek Directors could not provide us with data on the number of Greek directors.
The General Secretariat of Culture reports that as of 31.12.2012 they were working 6.748 permanent and indefinite and 3.681 contractors in the field of Culture – figures valid per quarter but showing slight variations.
A large group of people make up the teaching staff of professional drama schools, dance, Logistical upgrade of cultural spaces, music schools, conservatories – overall 9.408 during space 2010-2011 according to the Greek Statistical Authority. According to the same Authority, also the 2010, 1.932 workers were employed in libraries. If the above numbers are added, we have approx 100.000 people. Do they all manage to make a living?;
"Impossible to make a living writing books"
"In Greece it is impossible to make a living just by writing books" tells us the 46-year-old writer Amanda Michalopoulou. "His golden decades 1980 and his 1990, where the literature was a bestseller and the author was socially acclaimed, they have passed. Book sales have dropped dramatically, and naturally so. You used to see some people in banks with a book in hand. Today everyone has a plain look: they look ahead as if they are looking at nothing".
She herself tries to find other ways, more lucrative, to do what he knows how to do – "because I couldn't do any other job". It has, for example, two plays ready (one for children and one for adults) who intends to soon present them and request cooperation from groups that may be interested. Amanda Michalopoulou also teaches creative writing at the Heraklion Museum and at the cultural society of Kifissia Pyrna, while also doing private lessons working together with groups. "I think this choice of mine is mentally related to the need for communication that I feel," he explains. “In prose you always have one “holding”, you have to wait to talk. The only thing that could make me worry is that with all this the creative energy goes elsewhere – and not in writing. But I have the basic hope and feeling that these activities work in favor of writing. It's a slight shift in my activities. And when some people ask me “oh well, how is it possible to write with such desperation around;”, I answer them: That's when I grab the pencil".
"Just securing my food"
Our 59-year-old national tragedian Lydia Koniordou believes that the theater and the large number of those who serve it from many and different sides were not so shaken by the financial crisis. "Permanent positions never existed in the theater, We mostly worked on a project basis and were always looking for work. Certainly the jobs have decreased, multifaceted projects as well, opportunities are less, however, there is a clearing in the landscape: good shows do well and survive".
Lydia Koniordou agrees that in Greece there is a disproportionately large number of theaters in relation to the population. "That they work, however, it means that some people are getting money from this work," he adds. In her opinion, the big losers in theater at this time are the young people: "There is a lot to offer from young people, children are hard to absorb and pay more to show their work than get paid".
She feels lucky to be part of a show like Bob Wilson's Odyssey at the National Theater. "The salary I receive from the National with the reductions I have suffered is approximately the same as I received when Nikos Kourkoulos was artistic director. It is rather low compared to the years I have been in the theater, but since the time I was apprenticed to Karolos Kuhn I have learned to live with what I make. With the money I get from the National and acting lessons (SS.: teaches at the Ancient Drama Center "Desmi" and at drama schools) I can secure my food. I have given up central heating, I warm myself with an oil stove like when I was a student at Exarchia, I have minimized the use of the car and commute with one “duckling” of the 80's and… i can't pay the tolls, taxes and so on. I just pretend they don't exist".
"Crisis does not make high art"
For the 55-year-old visual artist Tasso Manjavino, the crisis is not going to highlight the good works and the notable artists. "The crisis hits those who have taken art seriously. Gross commercial works remain commercial. “He is being punished” the good painting, with collectors appearing as… mavaragorites and asking to step on the artist's need to buy cheap works" he says. "In my opinion, crisis does not make high art. Unless we're talking about heroes". He himself does not know any of his colleagues who face extreme situations of poverty, but he is sure that only those who have made sure to have a knot on the end survive.
"I don't think young directors are any different from other young workers from other fields, in light of the fact that all of them are subject to long periods of unemployment, working conditions with low wages, debts that are time-barred and an industry in collapse" tells us the 31-year-old filmmaker Giorgos Zois.
“In my case, because of the run of my films, I can and do live from my profession because of job offers made to me after festivals and awards and copyrights from abroad. But this was not done by any entrepreneurial economic development nor is it a ray of light for the youth of our times. I don't want to give my random individual path as an alibi to a fallen system that is anxious to blackmail reality out of isolated exceptions. Greek everyday life does not fit any of us".
Literary evenings… without a coffee
The surrounding despair did not stop 41-year-old translator Dimitris Alexakis, son of the writer Vassilis Alexakis, to create together with a new group of partners – his wife, actress and director Fotini Banou, the sociologist Ari Asproulis and the theater researcher Teta Apostolakis – the cultural activities area Television Control Center in Kypseli (Cyprus 91A), where his decades 1960 and his 1970 black and white televisions were being repaired and assembled. The Center opened its doors to the public in November 2012.
"We created something new in an era where everything is against" says Dimitris Alexakis. "And we realize that month by month the crisis deepens more and more. The place is suffocatingly full, for example, in the literary evenings that we organize for those who stay for three and a half hours in the mood for discussion and participation, but without even taking a coffee. And that for us is devastating, prof’ that we have bet to make our expenses from the small bar of the place. Bad lies. It takes passion and risking any family fortune to survive in this space creating something new in this day and age. Our parents supported us, who were not rich, but they felt that there was a question of dignity. And what,what we earn we dispose of in space. Yes, “we go inside” every month and we also have a small child, but we are proud of’ what we do and we don't plan to stop. We're just constantly cutting our expenses.".
Source : tovima.gr
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Bird people 8.000 years

Representations of the Mother – Goddess, games, symbolic objects of communication or experimentation of Neolithic people in their attempt to explore the human body;

The issue remains open for archaeologists who study the 300 and now clay figurines found at the Neolithic site of Koutroulou Magoula in Fthiotida, a particularly important number and one of the largest of the period in Southeast Europe.
Idols are also found in other Neolithic sites in Anatolia and the Balkans, however, both the number and the variety of types make Koutroulou Magoula stand out, say the archaeologists who deal with the area.
Figurines vary in size, from 3 to 12 centimeters in length. They were made in many ways. A very common one was that of the central clay core, around which other pieces of clay were added to create the body parts.
They were found in various places of approx 40 acres occupied by the Neolithic site, one of the largest of the period that has been identified- even in house foundations.
The variety of their forms gives scope for many interpretations, as gender is often not stated, while several are human-shaped – bird, which sometimes results in a four-legged base. The above suggests that their use was not only for aesthetic purposes, but that they reflect something much more: the culture, the society and identity of the Neolithic inhabitants in Koutroulou Magoula.
The site was inhabited in the Middle Neolithic Period (about 5800-5300 e.g.) by a few hundred people, who built neat houses of stone and bricks, with stone floor substrates. It is remarkable, also, the fact that it was also used later, the Bronze Age and the Medieval Years.
The excavation began 2001 by the honorary director of the Ministry of Education and Culture, Nina Kyparissi. From the 2010 is being carried out as part of the new partnership program between the Archaeological Survey and the University of Southampton, through the British School of Athens.
Source : ethnos.gr
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To save the good book, its price must be reduced

Eleven bibliophile blogs in joint letter to publishers asking them to reduce book prices. They recognize , of course, that lately most publishers have reduced the prices of older books by making very tempting offers.

But the problem of modern books remains, whose price ranges between 15-20 euro, which in the days of crisis they consider to be prohibitive.
In addition, these bibliophile bloggers point out that publishers are in danger of falling into the "publish what sells" logic, which in the long run will destroy literature.

The signatories of the letter point out that they understand "the various difficulties, from obligations to employees, the cost of paper, rights burdens, of translations and so on within the particularities of the Greek market with its linguistic limitations and the small population" , but they emphasize that "again the book, precisely in the present crisis, we must spread it as a good and not as a luxury of the few".

They therefore suggest to the publishers to take "a courageous step: reduction in the price of new securities, so as not to stop the creative expression of all of them, among whom, always, there are talents that should not be wasted, because he will have qualified out of sheer necessity, the ephemeral and the salable".

The letter of the eleven blogs

“Ladies and gentlemen editors,

requested, both for you and for us bibliophile bloggers, is to increase readability in a Greece, who reads less and less.

The main problem in recent years is the crisis. An acute and multi-layered crisis. Your business has been invaded, but in a stratified manner it is now reflected in the largest part of Greek society and affects it, respectively proportionately and nevertheless dramatically, the lives of all of us. When unemployment and plummeting incomes have soared to their highest rates in decades, the main priority of course can only be the defense of Dignity in everyday life with all that it must include in conditions of Democracy: Health, Roof, Food, Education, Freedom.

For the bibliophiles of this country, which in the majority of them is not a privileged part, that lives outside of common economic reality, the book is a very important asset included in the above, which cannot and should not be included in their list, which will be reduced or cut completely, because precision often makes it unapproachable.

If with the offers, the bazaars, turning to the old titles and going back to the libraries seems like a good solution, what will happen with the new titles?;

They will concern fewer and fewer; And if this is consolidated as a forced condition in the crisis, we will go from publishing flood to publishing ebb, whose required characteristics will be described with the phrase we issue the,what can be depreciated;

Objections to the price of the book had been heard in the past, both by readers and by experts in the field, journalists and critics. When an average book costs €15-20, most people will prefer to watch a movie at the cinema, which costs much less than €10 or the same money to spend on another kind (entertaining) outlet.

The same is unfortunately true for the e-book. Where the price should be much lower, since the issuance costs are lower, slight differences are observed compared to the printed book. The reader would be logical, which has the corresponding device, to be motivated to buy intangibles, while he who has not, to find motivation to follow the development.
 Before we get to the sad and fundamentally anti-civilization point, that is, to completely annihilate the number of readers, let you try, the publishing houses, as this obligation primarily falls to you, a brave step: reduction in the price of new securities, so as not to stop the creative expression of all of them, among whom, always, there are talents that should not be wasted, because he will have qualified out of sheer necessity, the ephemeral and the salable.

 The book, today, it is expensive and prevents its purchase. This is the reality, which however, you, you can change.

 As readers, bloggers and citizens, we ask you for the biggest possible reduction and, if you do, us first, we will support her.

We understand the various difficulties, from your obligations to employees, the cost of paper, rights burdens, of translations and so on within the particularities of the Greek market with its linguistic limitations and the small population, but then again the book, precisely in the present crisis, we must spread it as a good and not as a luxury of the few.

Our blogs, always welcoming and without any kind of exchange, we worked and we are working, of course, as… book advertisers! Especially those that transcend the ephemeral…

 We can continue serving Literature together with you (and any other kind of reason) and contributing to its survival, if you also want to go ahead with it, which we now urgently ask of you: low prices on everything and especially on new books, without changing their aesthetics and quality.

Sincerely

bookworm,  Book cafe, Reading, Vaults, Anagnostria, Thalis' blog, Read-for-a-Life, Desperado, Kangaroo, Degas Reading Club, Spring Agreement".

Source : tovima.gr

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Manhattan Medea by Dea Loer at Apo Michanis Theatre

The new performance of the Theater Company Co-Epi (+,X) Dea Loer's Manhattan Medea will premiere at Apo Michanis Theater on 4 Of March 2013. The direction is by Efi Theodorou and the actors: Pantelis Dentakis, Andreas Kontopoulos and Ioanna Pappa.

For 25 only performances.

The modern version of Medea, written it 1999, by German author Dea Loher takes place in Manhattan. Medea and Jason are no longer children of kings or descendants of gods living in Corinth but illegal immigrants who have been forced to flee Europe. They have left behind their homeland in flames, in search of the New World, expecting to build their lives there from scratch. And they will do anything to survive and claim a better life. Their dreams are shattered in the melting pot of the American metropolis, and Jason abandons Medea for the daughter of a wealthy businessman, the young and rich Claire. On the eve of the wedding, Medea appears, determined to bring him back to her home on 5th Avenue at any cost and nothing will ever be the same.
Dea Loher's very interesting venture with elaborate language, poetic and deeply human, it wonderfully combines the ancient with the modern, speaking in today's language about all that the ancient myth deals with: the passion for life, the diversity, xenophobia, the struggle of the sexes, the passion, the oath, greed, the injustice, love, the betrayal.

Translated by George Depastas
Directed by Efi Theodorou
Scenery Nikos Anagnostopoulos
Costumes Ioanna Tsami
Lighting by Sakis Birbilis
Performed by the actors Pantelis Dentakis, Andreas Kontopoulos, Ioanna Pappa

Photos
Stamatis Abatis

A few words about the author
Dea Loher (Dea Loer)

Dea Lauer is one of the most important German voices in the field of playwriting. Her plays have been translated and performed in many countries around the world: Australia, Switzerland, France, England, Hellas, Finland, Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic and Latin America. Born in 1964 in Bavaria. After finishing studies in German literature and philosophy in Munich, lived for some time in Brazil. He returned to Berlin, where he worked in radio and studied playwriting at the Hochschule der Künste under Heiner Müller and Yaak Karsunke.

He has written the plays: “At the Black Lake” (By Lake Schwarzer See, 2012), thieves (Thieves, 2010), The last fire (The Final Fire, 2008), “Life on Praça Roosevelt” (Life on the Praça Roosevelt, 2004),
“innocence” (Innocence, 2003), “Magazine of Happiness” (in seven parts, 2001), “The third sector” (2001), “Klara's circumstances” (2000), “Manhattan Medea” (1999), “Adam Spirit” (1998), “Blaubart – Hope of women” (1997), “Strange house” (1995), “Leviathan” (1993), “tattoo” (1992),”Olga Raum”, (1992).
She has won numerous awards for her various works.

Source : culturenow.gr

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Oscar 2013: It doesn't get more boring

Daniel Day-Lewis writes History, "Life of Pi" wins the most awards and two Austrians are the European winners. But the 85th Oscar ceremony was sluggish and uninteresting. Good thing Tarantino was there too!

With the third Oscar of his career that he received for "Lincoln" by Steven Spielberg, Daniel Day-Lewis wrote his own chapter in the history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Sunday 24 February. The Irish actor is the first actor in the 85 years of the institution that manages to win three awards in the category of the first male role (ahead of his awards for My Left Foot and Blood Will Be Spilled).
"It was actually me playing Margaret Thatcher while Meryl Streep was Steven Spielberg's first choice for Lincoln," said Day-Lewis, prompted by the fact that another acting legend Meryl Streep, last year's winner for "Iron Lady" announced his name and presented him with the award.
Too bad this historic moment for those who are at least interested in the history of these awards, coincided with one of the most unpleasant, boring and tired ceremonies we have seen in recent years. Poor humor, many public relations (the thank you speeches were a non-stop copy paste in which the names were simply changed), few surprises and a new presenter, Seth MacFarlane, who quite simply could not communicate with the public.
The big favorite in the category of the best film was "Operation: Argo” by Ben Affleck and this movie, finally (as we all expected) he won. The moment was also special for the History of the Oscars because the envelope was opened at the White House by the First Lady of the USA Michelle Obama who appeared on the giant screen of the Dolby Hall having taken the floor from the actor Jack Nicholson who had gone up on stage.
Ben Affleck, whose name was absent from the category of Oscar nominees for best director, took the stage to accept his award and was joined not only by Grant Hesloff and George Clooney as co-producers of "The Operation :Argo" but also all the actors of the film who were in the room. Among them Alan Arkin (candidate for the second male role) and music composer Alexandre Desplaiss (Oscar nominee for music)
The Oscars were shared again this year. With the exception of "Mythical Creatures of the South" who won nowhere, all of the other eight films in contention for the Best Picture Oscar won an award. Quantitatively speaking, "Life of Pi" by Ang Lee is the one that won the most, that is, four: Direction, visual effects, music (Michael Dana) and photography (Claudio Miranda). Ang Lee who may be one of the kindest people in world cinema spoke with sincerity and warmth thanking all the actors of his film as well as his homeland, Taiwan, which as he said "contributed significantly to the creation of this film."
 
One place down, in the three awards, tie "Argo" which, in addition to best film, also won the adapted screenplay award (Chris Terio) and editing and Tom Hooper's Les Miserables musical won Best Supporting Actress (Anne Hathaway – the favourite), makeup and sound mixing.
However, this year's award is also a great moment for Austria, since two Austrian artists picked up a gilded statuette each for different films: director Michael Haneke picked up the Oscar for best foreign language film for "Love" and his compatriot, Christoph Waltz as supporting actor for Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained. It is the second to win after "Insolent Bastards", also a film by K. Tarantino.
Tarantino himself gave by far the best thank you when he took the stage to accept Charlize Theron and Dustin Hoffman's second career original screenplay Oscar for 'Django the Punisher' (the first was for "Pulp fiction"). You really felt like something was finally happening. Explosive and passionate as the dialogues he writes on paper and the images he creates on the screen, Tarantino raised his hand and made the victory sign (V) declared that it is the year of writers. "If we will remember "Django the Punisher" after 20 years this will be due to his heroes" said Tarantino far from modestly but yes, he was right.
An award was even given to "Zero dark thirty" by Kathryn Bigelow who actually shared the sound editing with "Skyfall"_ something that has happened for years at the Oscars. "Skyfall" won another Oscar for best song, exactly as expected. The live performance of "Skyfall" by Adele, it was one of the most beautiful moments of the evening.
Regarding David O.'s "Optimism Guide". Russell counted eight nominations but ultimately won only in one category* of the award's strongest: First female role for her 22 chroni Jennifer Lawrence, who on her way to the stage almost fell to the floor because of the huge off-white dress she was wearing and which definitely didn't fit her.  The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences knows how to support new acting powers, and there's no doubt that Lawrence (nominated once again in the same category for "Heart of Winter" belongs to these forces.
Regarding award show host Seth MacFarlane, his humor did not seem to touch the audience in the hall judging by the minimal laughter and applause. The evil was evident from the start when in his attempt to make fun of himself as the worst host of the Oscars, MacFarlane pulled it off. Captain Kirk appeared on the hall's giant screen (William Shatner) of the legendary TV series "Star Trek" who appeared to scold him and tell him that he ruined the award. No one was laughing. Like nobody laughed when MacFarlane threw a small bottle of whiskey at George Clooney sitting in the front row.
As if that wasn't enough, Mac Farlane brought the Ted doll to the stage from the film of the same name he wrote and directed a few years ago with Mark Wahlberg as a man who is "chased" by a teddy bear. But the bear's jokes on the Oscars stage with Mark Wahlberg again belonged to another event, even if the one about the Jews of the Oscars made any sense.
On the occasion of 50 years of life of the cinematic James Bond, Shirley Bassey came on stage and sang the legendary "Goldfinger" with playback, causing rather embarrassment, something that was not done with the appearance of Barbra Streisand who to honor her friend, music composer Marvin Hamlis (he died last year) sang "The way we were" live and blew the room away.
Another shot that "sat" well at the ceremony (from the few) was the appearance of the entire cast of Les Misérables singing on stage. Because of this film, the musical had its honor at the Oscars this year with Catherine Zeta-Jones again singing "All that jazz" from "Chicago" ,a film for which he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. And this one with playback though…
A snapshot with real meaning, which could really make you drool was 15-year-old Inocente's appearance on stage, of an immigrant who had lived for nine whole years homeless in America before she managed to escape her demons through paint and canvas. Her life became the short documentary "Inocente" by the couple Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine and this documentary won the Oscar yesterday. Innocente's appearance on stage with her directors made me feel for the first time the real world inside this year's Oscars.
All the awards
Best Movie
Business: Argo
First Male Role
Daniel Day Lewis (Lincoln)
First Female Role
Jennifer Lores (Guide to optimism)
Second Male Role
Christoph Waltz (Django the Punisher)
Second Female Role
Anne Hathaway (The Wretched)
Direction
Ang Lee (The Life of Pi)
Adapted script
Business :Argo
Script written straight for the screen
Django, the punisher
Cartoon
Brave
Best foreign language movie
Love
Photo address
Life of Pi
Montage
Business: Argo
Scenography
Lincoln
Suits
Anna Karenina
Makeup
The miserable ones
Music
Life of Pi (Michael Dana)
Song
"Skyfall" by Adele, Paul Epworth for the film of the same name
Audio mixing
The miserable ones
Sound editing
Heavy rain
Zero Dark Thirty
Visual effects
Life of Pi
Documentary
Searching for Sugar Man
Short length
«Curfew»
Short animations
«Paperman»
Short documentary
"Innocent"
Source : tovima.gr
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William Boyd is preparing a new James Bond novel

It will be released in UK bookshops in September

A new adventure starring James Bond will be in bookstores in September 2013 announced the Ian Fleming Foundation, which manages the estate and copyright of the work of the British author-father of the legendary spy. The title and the plot of the new novel are still being kept secret, however, the Foundation revealed that “we will have a return to the era of classic Bond, starring a 45-year-old 007, in 1969".
Sixty years have passed this year since the publication of the first story starring James Bond. British Ian Fleming (1908-1964), journalist, officer and writer, he was already mature when the first novel in the series first came out, the Casino Royal the 1953. Until his death 11 years later, had written in total 12 novels and two collections of short stories starring the secret agent James Bond.
The success of the novels was extraordinary and the film industry took full advantage of it. The first film starring Sean Connery as James Bond, "Doctor No", it was filmed 1962. Since then the publishing and film versions of the hero march together, reinforcing each other. "Skyfall", the last film in the series, met with unprecedented critical and box office success. Critics called it the best James Bond film while some theorists called it a cinematic essay on dystopia. Something of a subversive story, something the masterful direction of Sam Mendes, something we're used to the blond Daniel Craig in the role, κάτι η εμπνευσμένη επιλογή του υπόλοιπου καστ… η ταινία σημείωσε παγκόσμιες εισπράξεις που υπερέβησαν το ένα δισεκατομμύριο δολάρια καταλήγοντας η πιο επικερδής ταινία «Τζέιμς Μποντ» όλων των εποχών.
From his side, το Ίδρυμα Ίαν Φλέμινγκ έχει κάθε συμφέρον να διατηρεί ζωντανό το ενδιαφέρον για τις περιπέτειες του Τζέιμς Μποντ, που έχουν πουλήσει περισσότερα από 100 εκατομμύρια αντίτυπα παγκοσμίως. Μετά τον θάνατο του συγγραφέα του, ο Μποντ έχει αναστηθεί αρκετές φορές από την πένα άλλων συγγραφέων α λα μανιέρ ντε Ίαν Φλέμινγκ, όμως το εγχείρημα δεν είναι πάντοτε επιτυχημένο. Συγγραφείς χωρίς μεγάλη εμπειρία και προσωπικό ύφος μιμούνται πιο πρόθυμα τον Φλέμινγκ, αλλά αν είναι ατάλαντοι το αποτέλεσμα είναι άνευρο και πλαδαρό. Ικανοί συγγραφείς με αρκετούς δικούς τους τίτλους εγγυώνται καλύτερα κείμενα, όμως δύσκολα αποφεύγουν τον πειρασμό να πειραματιστούν με τον ήρωα του Φλέμινγκ δίνοντάς του προεκτάσεις που μπορεί να αιφνιδιάζουν δυσάρεστα το κοινό, όπως ο αμερικανός συγγραφέας θρίλερ Τζέφρι Ντίβερ που έγραψε την Carte Blanche (2011), την κατά σειρά 37η ιστορία του Τζέιμς Μποντ, μεταφέροντας τον ήρωα στον 21ο αιώνα.
Τη νέα περιπέτεια θα υπογράφει ο 61χρονος βρετανός Γουίλιαμ Μπόιντ, συγγραφέας καταξιωμένος που έχει δοκιμαστεί και στο αστυνομικό μυθιστόρημα. Στα ελληνικά κυκλοφορούν τρία μυθιστορήματά του, το ατμοσφαιρικό μυθιστόρημα εποχής Το γαλάζιο απόγευμα (Ωκεανίδα, 1997) και τα αστυνομικά Η απειλή (Ωκεανίδα, 2007) και Τοπικές καταιγίδες (Metaichmium, 2010). Βραβευμένος με τα βραβεία Whitbread και Somerset Maugham, είναι επίσης ασκημένος στο σενάριο – ιδιαίτερα σημαντικό προσόν στη συγκεκριμένη περίπτωση.
«Στρατολογημένοι» από το Ίδρυμα ήταν στο παρελθόν οι πεζογράφοι Κίνγκσλεϊ Έιμις, Κρίστοφερ Γουντ, Τζον Γκάρντνερ, Ρέιμοντ Μπένσον και ο Σεμπάστιαν Φοκς που έγραψε το -κατά γενική ομολογία επιτυχημένο- Devil May Care (2008) για τον εορτασμό της επετείου των 100 χρόνων από τη γέννηση του Φλέμινγκ.
Σχετικά με την ανάθεση της συγγραφής, ο Μπόιντ είχε δηλώσει τον Απρίλιο του 2012 ότι δέχτηκε αμέσως την πρόταση γιατί τη θεώρησε μια «φανταστική, συναρπαστική πρόκληση». He said, in fact, ότι ήταν εξοικειωμένος με τον Φλέμινγκ, μιας και τον είχε χρησιμοποιήσει ως χαρακτήρα στο δικό του μυθιστόρημα Any Human Heart (2002) που ήταν υποψήφιο για το βραβείο Booker.
Θα αποδειχτεί ο Μπόιντ διάδοχος του Φλέμινγκ καταλληλότερος από τους προηγούμενους; Η Κορίν Τέρνερ, διευθύντρια των Εκδόσεων Ίαν Φλέμινγκ, θεωρεί ότι ο Μπόιντ συνδυάζει, όπως ο Φλέμινγκ, τη λογοτεχνικότητα με την απήχηση σε ένα ευρύ κοινό και ότι γράφει το είδος των μυθιστορημάτων που θα έγραφε σήμερα ο Ίαν Φλέμινγκ, αν ζούσε.
Οι φανατικοί του μυθιστορηματικού Μποντ μπορούν να ελπίζουν σε έναν καλογραμμένο, περίπλοκο, πολυεπίπεδο ήρωα, πολύ πιο ενδιαφέροντα από τον «καρτουνίστικο χαρακτήρα» που παρουσιάζουν οι ταινίες – τουλάχιστον αυτό υποσχέθηκε ο Γουίλιαμ Μπόιντ.
Το μυθιστόρημα θα κυκλοφορήσει στα αγγλικά από τις εκδόσεις Jonathan Cape τον Σεπτέμβριο στη Βρετανία και από τις εκδόσεις HarperCollins τον Οκτώβριο στις ΗΠΑ.
Source : tovima.gr
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Nikos Portokaloglou and Filippos Pliatsikas, for 4 passport appearances

Nikos Portokaloglou and Filippos Pliatsikas, are returning to Piraeus after their sold out performances in Athens and Thessaloniki, for four unique performances at Passport, every Saturday from 9 Of March 2013.

What do Fatme have in common with Pyx Lax;
Nea Smyrni with Agios Anargyros;
The generation of the 80s with the generation of the 90s;
Larissa with Volos;
Old loves with lies;
The prodigal son with Stilvi;
Thirst with goldfish;
Solitude with the sea;
They are two unrelated worlds, foreigners, opposed or co-paid;
In other words, a composition will emerge, combination or simply gluing;
There will be true co-optation, consent, coordination, co-movement;

It will show soon…

Source : culturenow.gr