Michael Herzfeld

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Portrait of a Greek Imagination: An Ethnographic Biography of Andreas NenedakisHardcover, 19 January 1998

Portrait of a Greek Imagination: An Ethnographic Biography of Andreas Nenedakis
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Print Length
342 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Date Published
19 Jan 1998
ISBN-10
0226329097
ISBN-13
9780226329093

Description

Anthropologist Michael Herzfeld first met Greek novelist Andreas Nenedakis in the drafty courtyard of a public library. This encounter led to an enduring intellectual relationship that prompted Herzfeld to reconsider both the contours of fiction and the nature of anthropology. Portrait of a Greek Imagination, part biography and part ethnography, is Herzfeld's contextualization of Nenedakis's life, as it was both lived and fictionalized.

Herzfeld explores how personal vision intersects with national cultures by examining the Greek author's novels and recollections as historical accounts. Bringing together the methods of the novelist and the anthropologist in their common concern with both social and lived experience, Herzfeld shows how different perspectives shape the historical record. Nenedakis has endured persecution, exile, imprisonment, and torture under Greece's military dictatorship, and his novels--excerpted here in English for the first time--offer an individual version of historical events. As one of his characters ask, For was not his life, and are not the lives of all of us, a novel?

Product Details

Author:
Michael Herzfeld
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
19 January 1998
Dimensions:
23.62 x 16.03 x 2.51 cm
ISBN-10:
0226329097
ISBN-13:
9780226329093
Language:
English
Location:
Chicago, IL
Pages:
342
Weight:
639.56 gm

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