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Τριάντα διηγήματα 1931-1991 30 διηγήματα που καλύπτουν 60 χρόνια από τη ζωή της συγγραφέως και της χώρας. Η Σχολή Γυναικείας Μορφώσεως, που αργότερα της είχαν δώσει οι ιδιοκτήτες τον πομπώδη τίτλο Ακαδημία Γυναικείας Μορφώσεως, δεν ήταν ούτε ανώτερη ούτε μέση ούτε καν παιδεία. Ήταν μια κερδοφόρα επιχείρηση, που δημιούργησαν στη δεκαετία του ’20, με πελατεία κακομαθημένα πλουσιοκόριτσα που οι γονείς τους τα προόριζαν για νυφοπάζαρα περιωπής. Διδάσκονταν σ’ αυτή την ακαδημία ό,τι χρειάζονταν τα κορίτσια της "καλής τάξης" - γαλλικά, αγγλικά, πιάνο, χορό, ζωγραφική, λίγα πασαλείμματα ελληνικής και ξένης λογοτεχνίας, ιστορία της Τέχνης, γυμναστική, υγιεινή, κεντήματα και μαθήματα μαγειρικής, "Πώς να ικανοποιείτε τον στόμαχον του μέλλοντος συζύγου με γαργαλιστικά εδέσματα...", όπως έλεγε και η στρουμπουλή καθηγήτρια των οικοκυρικών κυρία Φούλα. Τα περισσότερα κορίτσια την ανέχονταν αυτή την υποβαθμισμένη ψευτοπαιδεία. Ήταν όμως και κάμποσα άλλα, θύματα του συντηρητισμού των γονιών και των κηδεμόνων τους, που τα τραβούσαν από το κλασικό γυμνάσιο, για να πάψουν να ονειρεύονται πανεπιστημιακές και άλλες ανώτερες σπουδές, κι ας είχαν και μυαλό και θέληση για κάτι καλύτερο. (απόσπασμα από το "Γράμμα από τα παλιά")
312 pages, Paperback
Published November 1, 2019
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About the author
Dido Sotiriou
15 books142 followersDido Sotiriou (Greek: Διδώ Σωτηρίου) was born in Aϊdini of Asia minor, in 1909, the daughter of Evangelos Pappas and Marianthi Papadopoulou.
In 1919 she moved with her family to Smyrni (Izmir) but following the destruction of 1922 she fled to Greece. In Athens she completed her general education having as teachers the then literary figures Kostas Paroritis and Sophia Mayroeidis-Papadakis amongst others. She studied at the French Institute of Athens and in 1937 she briefly attended a course in French Literature at the University of Sorbonnis.
In 1936 she officially turned to professionally practicing Journalism. She worked for the magazine “Gynaika” (Woman) (as editor-in-chief) and then went on to work for newspapers “Neos Kosmos” (New World) and “Rizospastis” (The Revolutionist) (again as editor-in-chief from 1944), while during the duration of the German Occupation collaborating with Melpo Aksioti, Elli Alexiou, Elli Pappa, Titika Damaskinou, Elektra Apostolou, Chrysa Chatzivasileiou and other Greek women who were members of the Resistance.
In 1935 she took part in the congress of the Comity in Geneva, where she met Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s comrade Alexandra Mikhailovna "Shura" Kollontai and in 1945 she took part in the founding congress of the Women’s International Democratic Federation in Paris.
She first appeared on the literary scene in 1959 with the publication of her first novel “Oi Nekroi Perimenoyn” (The Dead Await). Her works have been translated into many foreign languages.
Dido Sotiriou belongs to the Greek novelists of the 1920-1940 eras. Her work moves in the planes of realism with the presence of the self biographical element strong and the emotional participation of the author in the adventures of her protagonists. Her material is derived from the Asia Minor Disaster, the Civil War period and the period after the Civil War in Greece.
With “Matomena Chomata” (published as Farewell,Anatolia in English) Sotiriou initiated her course towards a style of writing that combined fiction with her own distinct way of examining her issues from a historical aspect.
A course which continued and bled into her next two novels “Entoli” (The Command) which had as a theme the case of Mpelogiannis and “Katedafizometha” (Shattered).
She died in 2004.
In 1919 she moved with her family to Smyrni (Izmir) but following the destruction of 1922 she fled to Greece. In Athens she completed her general education having as teachers the then literary figures Kostas Paroritis and Sophia Mayroeidis-Papadakis amongst others. She studied at the French Institute of Athens and in 1937 she briefly attended a course in French Literature at the University of Sorbonnis.
In 1936 she officially turned to professionally practicing Journalism. She worked for the magazine “Gynaika” (Woman) (as editor-in-chief) and then went on to work for newspapers “Neos Kosmos” (New World) and “Rizospastis” (The Revolutionist) (again as editor-in-chief from 1944), while during the duration of the German Occupation collaborating with Melpo Aksioti, Elli Alexiou, Elli Pappa, Titika Damaskinou, Elektra Apostolou, Chrysa Chatzivasileiou and other Greek women who were members of the Resistance.
In 1935 she took part in the congress of the Comity in Geneva, where she met Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s comrade Alexandra Mikhailovna "Shura" Kollontai and in 1945 she took part in the founding congress of the Women’s International Democratic Federation in Paris.
She first appeared on the literary scene in 1959 with the publication of her first novel “Oi Nekroi Perimenoyn” (The Dead Await). Her works have been translated into many foreign languages.
Dido Sotiriou belongs to the Greek novelists of the 1920-1940 eras. Her work moves in the planes of realism with the presence of the self biographical element strong and the emotional participation of the author in the adventures of her protagonists. Her material is derived from the Asia Minor Disaster, the Civil War period and the period after the Civil War in Greece.
With “Matomena Chomata” (published as Farewell,Anatolia in English) Sotiriou initiated her course towards a style of writing that combined fiction with her own distinct way of examining her issues from a historical aspect.
A course which continued and bled into her next two novels “Entoli” (The Command) which had as a theme the case of Mpelogiannis and “Katedafizometha” (Shattered).
She died in 2004.
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Άλλα διηγήματα ημιτελή, άλλα σε διπλογραφή καθιστώντας την επιμέλεια άθλο, αλλά όλα τους με τη διαύγεια και τη χαρακτηριστική σφραγιδα ενός υπέροχου πνεύματος.
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