Le avventure pastorali di Dafni e Cloe

A novelist generally reproduces a slice of life , where he is judged by his realism, or else he expresses criticism of life , in which case he is judged by his philosophy. In this novel, Longus does neither, he just tries to translate a beautiful picture into words , replacing the brazen world of actua Leggi tutto

mitolojiyle iç içe geçmiş kitapları okumaya bayılıyorum. tanrılar, kehanetler, eski dünyanın mistik atmosferi.. bunlar beni hep içine çeker. ancak daphnis ile khloe’nin aşkı beni hayal kırıklığına uğrattı. pastoral hikâyelerin doğası gereği yavaş olması sorun değil ama bazen hikâye bir noktada takıl Leggi tutto

An idealised tale of first love (give or take the odd abduction or attempted rape).. A boy is rescued by a young girl and immediately falls in love with her. She loves him in return but has another admirer, Dorco, who tries to kidnap her when her father refuses to allow their marriage. There follows Leggi tutto

Son zamanlarda okuduğum en güzel kitap . Kitabın sayfa sayısı az ama içindeki olaylar insana yaşattığı haz doruklarda. Epeydir antik yunan okumamıştım ama yine antik yunan'a yöneltecek bu kitap beni. Yine spoiler vermemek adına çok övmedim ama okuyun okutun sıkmayan bir aşk hikayesi var içeride. Leggi tutto

The adolescent,real pure love,the discovery of sensuality,the birth of sexuality,the exploration of one another body,is one of the most beautiful and tender events in the life of a human being;yet no ever happens and if it do, mostly only one time, and by that is a intemporal subject of novels and p Leggi tutto

Ένα όμορφο παραμύθι που αναφέρεται, όχι μόνο στον έρωτα 2 παιδιών/εφήβων, αλλά και γενικά στην αγροτική ζωή στην Αρχαία Ελλάδα. Likes: 1) Μικρο, με λίγες σελίδες και ευκολοδιάβαστο (παρόλο που έχει πολύ λίγους έως και καθόλου διαλόγους (και ό,τι θέλουν να πουν ή σκέφτονται το λένε ή το εκφράζουν σε Leggi tutto

This book seems so out of place. This little novel of pastoral love when set against the epics of Greek and Roman poetry seems like something the contemporaries couldn’t have taken seriously. Yet it’s a captivating and sensuous read, perhaps more now than it was then. It bears some resemblance to So Leggi tutto

Kept thinking how pleasant it would be to live the bucolic/pastoral life, then contradicting myself to realize that no, it would suck, I'd constantly be worrying about ticks and lyme disease. Interesting story told with a lot of like fairy tale narrative techniques, which made it kind of surprising