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John Craxton escaped the oppressive homophobia of post-war Britain


by Ian Collins (Yale £25, 384 pp)
At last! An artist who had a happy childhood! The Craxtons of 8 Grove End Road, St John’s Wood sound like a delightfully bohemian 1920s bunch: musical parents, five sons, one daughter, piano played, trees climbed, guests visiting for a week and staying for four years, family holidays spent in a converted Army hut on the beach in Sussex.
The only fly in the ointment was that fourth son John the subject of Ian Collins’s evocative biography of the artist whom we most associate with Greece was detested by his elder brother Antony. John was dreamy, delicate, fey; Antony was ramrod-straight and would become a BBC producer and pillar of the Establishment. ....

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Viaje a Grecia


Viaje a Grecia
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Una aproximación al país heleno con algunas obras literarias que recrearon su magia, De Platón a Kazantzakis o Gerald Durrell
 
Cristina Spanò
En las líneas finales de su breve ensayo
On not knowing Greek (1925), Virginia Woolf escribió que regresamos a los griegos cuando estamos cansados de la vaguedad y de la confusión de nuestra época. Desde los quince años la autora británica había dedicado muchas horas y esfuerzos a aprender el griego clásico. En aquella antigua lengua descubrió una visión del mundo bella y elegante; una manera compleja de aprehender la realidad y de nombrarla. El griego antiguo permitía a Virginia Woolf sumergirse en los mecanismos mentales de un pueblo extraordinario que literalmente creó la civilización occidental y nos legó la filosofía, las matemáticas, la geometría, el arte, la oratoria y la democracia. Sumergirse en la lectura de Sófocles, por ejemplo, suponía para ella traslada ....

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Travel to Singapore, India, Malaysia, Greece, China and more from home with these book recommendations

Xu Xi, novelist Xu Xi is in the habit of dividing her time between New York, Hong Kong and, well, the world, and has long advocated a "transnational approach" to literature. Sequestered in upstate New York during the pandemic, she hasn't found adapting to sedentary life easy. And, she says, she longs for Southeast Asia. "Although I was born in Hong Kong, I travelled for years on an Indonesian passport, which was funny because I couldn't speak. ....

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