Ποιήματα
Κωνσταντίνος Καβάφης, 1937
A civil servant in Alexandria turns Greek history into a mirror for every reader who has failed at something or is tempted to give up. Read one poem a night, and it stays with you.
Books about time
Time in these books is less a machine than a pressure on ordinary lives: a civil servant in Alexandria measuring his own failures against Greek history in «Ποιήματα», or a marriage lived out of order in The Time Traveler's Wife, where Henry vanishes into his own past and Clare waits. You come to them for the company of people trying to hold a timetable, a memory or a family together, and for the sense that the past keeps rehearsing itself.
A page that shows it
A life laid out as two rows of candles, one lit and one gone cold.
Τοῦ μέλλοντος ἡ μέρες στέκοντ’ ἐμπροστά μαςσὰν μιὰ σειρὰ κεράκια ἀναμένα —χρυσᾶ, ζεστὰ, καὶ ζωηρὰ κεράκια.Ἡ περασμένες μέρες πίσω μένουν,μιὰ θλιβερὴ σειρὰ κεριῶν σβυσμένων·τὰ πιὸ κοντὰ βγάζουν καπνὸν ἀκόμη,κρύα κεριά, λυωμένα, καὶ κυρτά.Δὲν θέλω νὰ τὰ βλέπω· μὲ λυπεῖ ἡ μορφή των,καὶ μὲ λυπεῖ τὸ πρῶτο φῶς των νὰ θυμοῦμαι.Ἐμπρὸς κυττάζω τ’ ἀναμένα μου κεριά.Δὲν θέλω νὰ γυρίσω νὰ μὴ δῶ καὶ φρίξωτί γρήγορα ποῦ ἡ σκοτεινὴ γραμμὴ μακραίνει,τί γρήγορα ποῦ τὰ σβυστὰ κεριὰ πληθαίνουν. -
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, 1979
The Earth is demolished for a bypass, and a man in his dressing gown must hitch across a galaxy run on bad bureaucracy and good towels.
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The Time Machine
H. G. Wells, 1895
A dinner-party tale of a man who returns from the far future with a warning about class, comfort and where the human species is heading.
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Το μαγικό φωτογραφείο του κύριου Χιρασάκα
Χιιραγκι Σανακα, 2020
A quiet, fantastical story about photographs, memory and the moments we wish we could visit once more.
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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf, 1925
One June day in London, a society wife prepares a party while a shell-shocked veteran sits in the park. A novel written the way a mind actually moves.
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Η ΦΥΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΜΕΣΗΣ-ΓΗΣ. Ύστερα κείμενα αναφερόμενα στους τόπους, στους κατοίκους και στη μεταφυσική της Μέσης-γης
Τζ. Ρ. Ρ. Τόλκιν, 1980
Tolkien’s later writings map Middle-earth’s peoples, places, and underlying metaphysics, revealing the intricate thought behind the legendarium.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne, 1872
A rich Londoner bets his fortune that he can circle the globe in eighty days, and spends every hour of them proving a timetable can beat the world.
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The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger, 2003
A marriage lived out of order: Henry vanishes into his own past without warning, and Clare spends a life waiting for him to come back.
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To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf, 1927
A family's summer house, a postponed boat trip and a half-finished painting: Woolf gets family life from the inside, in sentences that think as they go.
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Holes
Louis Sachar, 1998
A boy sent to a desert camp for delinquent boys digs holes all day and slowly uncovers a family curse, a buried outlaw, and a history that won't stay buried.
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David Copperfield
Charles Dickens, 1850
A boy survives debt, school and unreliable adults, and learns how memory turns a life into a story.
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 1969
A soldier unstuck from time, an invented planet, and a three-word shrug for every death the twentieth century could hand him.
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Short Fiction
Thomas Hardy, 1888
Hardy's short stories: farmers, milkmaids, hussars and ghosts, where a fog-bound night or a small decision quietly decides a whole life.
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Hawaii
James Michener, 1959
Michener follows Hawaii from undersea geology to plantation politics, asking who gets to call the islands home.
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Ο τυφλοσύρτης
Αλέξανδρος Παπαδιαμάντης, 1912
A shimmering meditation on memory, time, and the landscapes we carry within us, from one of Greece's most beloved writers.
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Φωτεινός
Αριστοτέλης Βαλαωρίτης, 1879
A journey through cyclical suffering and fragile moments of transcendence. A meditation on what remains when everything else dissolves.
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, 1969
Vonnegut survived the Dresden firebombing and spent twenty-three years failing to write it straight — so he wrote it as science fiction, jokes and all.
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The Wedding People
Alison Espach, 2024
A newly divorced professor checks into a Newport hotel with a secret plan and is mistaken for a wedding guest; the weekend becomes a witty, tender study of starting over.
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The Art of War
Sun Tzu, -500
A 2,500-year-old manual for conflict, written for generals and read by anyone who has to hold a position, win an argument, or know when to walk away.
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Ποιήματα
Κ.π. Καβαφης, 1935
The 154 poems Cavafy chose to keep, plus thirteen he hid — history, desire and irony in a voice that still sounds like nobody else's.
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The Martian
Andy Weir, 2011
An astronaut stranded on Mars must science his way out, one log entry and improvised fix at a time; a survival thriller with gallows humor.
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Cien años de soledad
Gabriel García Márquez, 1967
Seven generations of the Buendía family in a town where magnets, ice and alchemy are real—and solitude runs in the blood.
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Τα εφήμερα
Εμμανουήλ Ροΐδης, 1888
A katharevousa essayist falls asleep by the Kifissos and overhears mayflies, who live four hours, philosophise about sex, death and reputation. Satire disguised as natural history.
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A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara, 2015
Four friends arrive in New York after college and try to make art, money, and a family out of one another.
A taste of the feed
When a familiar face slips beyond the reach of memory.
Αλήθεια, όμως, ποιος ήταν αυτός ο άνθρωπος; Μέχρι τώρα, ακόμα κι όταν τη χαιρετούσε αναπάντεχα κάποιος στον δρόμο, αμέσως τον αναγνώριζε λέγοντας: «Είσαι ο τάδε, σωστά;» – γεγονός που πάντα χαροποιούσε τον άλλον. Πίστευε πως ήταν πραγματικά άσχημο να γερνάς και να σκουριάζει το μυαλό σου. «Καλώς ήρθατε. Σας περίμενα» της είπε ο άντρας.
Το μαγικό φωτογραφείο του κύριου Χιρασάκα · Χιιραγκι Σανακα
To feel young and ancient at once, and find the day dangerous.
She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged. She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on. She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
Mrs. Dalloway · Virginia Woolf
A whole mythology begins on paper covered in calculations.
Το κείμενο αυτό καλύπτει και τις οχτώ σελίδες τεσσάρων αχαράκωτων φύλλων. Είναι γραμμένο καθαρά, με μαύρη πένα, με προσθήκες και κάποιες διορθώσεις με στυλό διαρκείας. Η πίσω πλευρά των περισσότερων φύλλων είναι γεμάτη με υπολογισμούς που δεν δίνονται εδώ. Το κείμενο χρονολογείται γύρω στο 1959.
Η ΦΥΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΜΕΣΗΣ-ΓΗΣ. Ύστερα κείμενα αναφερόμενα στους τόπους, στους κατοίκους και στη μεταφυσική της Μέσης-γης · Τζ. Ρ. Ρ. Τόλκιν
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