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Kaiē Tsitselē (or Kay Cicellis, name by which she is known in English), 1926-2001, was a Greek author who wrote in both English and Greek. Her linguistic biography is complex. Born in Marseille to Greek parents, who seem to have normally spoken French with her, she learned English from an English governess, and she very soon came to feel that English was the language most suited to her writing. She had never visited Greece until, at the age of ten, she moved with her family to Athens. For the first three years after this move, she received private lessons at home, and she was later to claim that this was when she first learned Greek. In 1939 she enrolled at the American College for Girls in the seaside Athens suburb of Hellēniko. It was about this time that she began to write literary texts in English. As she wrote in 1956, "at the very moment when I recognized the English language as my language, I also recognized Greece as my country, my element. These two discoveries, though simultaneous, were irreconcilable" (Tsitselē 1956a). After the German invasion of Greece in 1941, she moved with her family to her father's ancestral island of Cephalonia. Once the Second World War was over, Tsitselē settled in Athens, where she lived for most of the rest of her life. However, she spent two extended periods in London in 1950-1 and 1955-6, several months in Karachi, and about four years in a small town near Manchester, England (1958-62). The reason why she spent time in these last two places was that her husband Nikos Paleologos was working there.
Most of Tsitselē's literary writing until the 1980s was in English, and all of her first six books, published in the period 1950-1967, were written in English. The most successful phase of her career as an English writer lasted from 1950 to the early 1960s. During the period between 1974 and 1996 she became one of the foremost translators of modern Greek writing – both fiction and non-fiction – into English. After some texts of hers in Greek had appeared sporadically over a period of forty years, her career as a Greek author enjoyed a remarkable late flowering in the 1990s, when she published a series of stories in magazines, which were collected, together with others, in a volume entitled Ho choros tōn hōrōn ( The Dance of the Hours, Athens 1998). This, her first and only book written in Greek, was awarded the Greek National Short-Story Prize in 1999.
The collection comprises 17 archival boxes of manuscripts of some of Tsitselē's novels, short stories, radio scripts, translations of Greek works into English, and correspondence with friends and associates. Included in these papers are autograph manuscript and typescript drafts, as well as notebooks of No Name in the Street (1953), her first novel, Ten Seconds from Now (1957), a novel, The Way to Colonos (1960), and many drafts of stories to be included in an unpublished work, The Painter and His Model (ca. 1978). In addition, there are translations from Greek into English by Tsitselē of Koula (1991) by Menēs Koumantareas and The Wife of Candaulus (1954) by Margarita Lymperakē, as well as a libretto for an opera composed by Arghyris Kounadis called The Return (1962), based on The Way to Colonos.
There are letters to Tsitselē, in English and in Greek, by Michael Cacoyannis, Kimon Friar, E. M. Forster, W. Hollerer, Margarita Lymperakē, Iris Murdoch, Peter Mackridge, Arghyris Kounadis, Angelos Staurou Vlachos, and others; literary and other magazines; and Greek newspapers containing articles, book reviews or short stories by Tsitselē. Also included are postcard photographs by Sougioutzoglou-Seraidarē, Nelly's of the Delphic Festival of 1930 in Delphi, Greece, and a few others.
Organized into the following series and subseries:
Published editions of these manuscripts: No Name in the Street. New York: Grove Press, 1953, Ten Seconds From Now. London: Harvill Press, 1957, The Way to Colonos. New York: Grove Press, 1960, Ho choros tōn hōrōn. Athens: Agra, 1998, Death of a Town. London: The Harvill Press, 1954 [1955]. Menēs Koumantareas: Koula . Athens: Kedros, translated by Kaiē Tsitselē, 1991.
The biographical note is based on research done by Prof. Peter Mackridge as a Library Research Fellow of the Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University.
Gift of Kaiē Tsitselē to the Program in Hellenic Studies for the Princeton University Library.
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This collection was originally processed in 1998. New material was acquired and the collection was revised, reprocessed, and completed by Kalliopi Balatsouka in 2010. Finding aid compiled by Kalliopi Balatsouka in 2010, incorporating descriptions generously prepared by Prof. Peter Mackridge.
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- Authors, Greek -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Authors, Greek -- 20th century -- Manuscripts
- Greek literature, Modern -- 20th century -- Translations into English
- Women novelists, Greek -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Women novelists, Greek -- 20th century -- Manuscripts
- Women translators -- Greece -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Women translators -- Greece -- 20th century -- Manuscripts
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- 2011
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Collection Inventory
This series consists of Kaiē Tsitselē's autograph and typed manuscript drafts of her works including translations in English of works by other Modern Greek authors.
This series has been organized into five subseries: 1. Books; 2. Stories; 3. Articles, Lectures, Radio Talks; 4. Work of Tsitselē in Other Media; and 5. Translation.
Physical Description7 boxes
This subseries comprises autograph and typed manuscript drafts of Kaiē Tsitselē's original works published in book form. There is also unpublished material.
This subseries has been organized alphabetically by title.
Physical Description4 boxes
Consists of autograph and typed manuscripts of short stories published in the book To chameno patōma. Athens: Kedros, 1984. Most of the pieces have been translated into Greek by Nikos Phōkas. Included are: "Metaphrasē" ["Translation"] (Oct. 1977); "Epaneuthygrammisē" ["Re-Alignment"] (3 Nov. 1978); "Pōs na phtiaxeis hena dentro" ["To Make a Tree"]; "Enkōmio tēs stixēs" ["The Uses of Punctuation"]; two offprints of Dialogos 2 (1995) containing the article "The Uses of Punctuation: a story"; "Henas alliōtikos ēchos" ["Follow That Car"], date 1 Feb. 1981 is crossed out, (extract reprinted in Hē Lexē, 45 (June 1985), 546; "Hena cheri" ["A Hand"]; "Ho zōgraphos kai to montelo tou" ["The Painter and his Model"] (Spring 1982); "Gia kapnistes mono" ["Smokers Only"]; "Hē periptōsē tou chamenou patōmatos" ["The Case of the Missing Floor"]; "Hē phrasē pou teleiōse." There is also Tsitselē's autograph manuscript list of contents; autograph notes regarding the Greek translation of the book and typographical layout of texts; original and photocopies of the autograph and typed manuscript translations in Greek with handwritten emendations; autograph of an authorial note published at the end of the book, as well as the English and Greek blurb published on the back cover of her book. Apparently prepared for publicity material for Kedros (publisher) at Frankfurt book fair.
Physical Description1 folder
1 box
Includes a notebook of an early draft for the short fiction "Hē nychta chainei" and a photocopy of an uncorrected autograph manuscript draft; a typed manuscript of the same story entitled "The Night, Agapē" translated from the Greek by Stauros Deligiorgis with handwritten emendations. There are also two typed manuscript drafts in Greek; on the verso of the last two pages there is an autograph letter by Pantelēs [Boukalas]. The story was original published in Hē Lexē, 101 (January-February 1991), 21-25.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes autograph manuscript notes and drafts for story with various proposed titles ended up as "To trito cheri" (one manuscript entitled "Hē syngraphē tou keimenou," dated May 1991; other notes and drafts are variously entitled "Hoi mesazontes," "Mesolavēsē," "Mia logotechnikē syzētēsē," and "Hē idia historia"). Also included is a typescript of "To trito cheri" dated May 1991; an autograph manuscript draft of a text to be published on back cover of Tsitselē's book Ho choros tōn hōrōn; and a typescript draft of the short story "Stigmiotypo" (undated) translated by Miltos Frangopoulos and published in the same book.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes Tsitselē's two advanced autograph drafts (1 original and 1 photocopy) of the story "Hē teletē." Both are dated in 1994 (ms, datelined Maios 1994/Princeton. Athēna is crossed out). There is also an early autograph draft (Princeton 1994) with heavy handwritten corrections and annotations.
Physical Description1 folder
Consists of original and photocopies of autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of the above stories that are included in Ho choros tōn hōrōn. The story "Emphanisē" was reprinted in Pavlos Zannas, Thessalonikē: phestival kinēmatographou Thessalonikēs, 1993. "Ta traina: mythologia kai laspōmena podia" was also published in To dentro, 73-74 (November -December 1992), 129-132.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of the story "Prosōpographia" both in English and in Greek. There is also a letter from Stauros Deligiorgis concerning his English translation of the "Portrait."
Physical Description1 folder
Includes mostly original and a few photocopies of autograph manuscript drafts of the above short stories, as well as a few final typescripts. There is also a letter from [Pantelēs Boukalas] to Tsitselē.
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Includes one bound autograph manuscript of a translation into Japanese.
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Includes autograph manuscript drafts of the story The Gay City; some miscellaneous notes; and typed manuscript drafts.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes two notebooks with drafts and clippings of American and English newspapers attached on their boards.
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Consists of two notebooks with rough drafts of the two stories: "The Return" and "The Exile"; a draft of "Where the Furies Live" which eventually became "The Way to Colonos"; plans for a number of stories; one of them "Antigonē" is what eventually became "The Way to Colonos" in the volume of the same name. Also present are typescript drafts of the short story "Two Windows," dated May 1959.
Physical Description1 folder
This is an unpublished as a volume collection of thirteen stories: "Translation," "I Am not a Camera," "Puppet Show," "The Uses of Punctuation," "Follow that Car," "A Hand," "Re-Alignment," "The Home Companion," "To Make a Tree," "The Painter and his Model," "Smokers Only," "The Case of Missing Floor," and "Intimacy." Some of them are unpublished in English; most were included in Greek translation and in a slightly different form in To chameno patōma [ The Missing Floor. Athens: Kedros 1984], and two in Ho choros tōn hōrōn.
Physical Description2 boxes
Includes stories of the proposed volume The Painter and his Model. The typescript of the text "I Am Not a Camera" (consisting of two numbered parts, as published in the Harvard Review, 1994) is headed "On the island of Cos, (South Aegean), October 1976." It was also intended to be published by the Ploughshares but rejected according to the attached short note by the associate editor. "Seeing" (2 typescripts): this story was rewritten as "Hena stigmiotypo," then as "Hē graphē kai ho phakos," and eventually became "Stigmiotypo" in Ho choros tōn hōrōn; typescript draft of the text "Before and After," dated February 1977 with heavy handwritten corrections. On an attached slip a manuscript note reads: "It's the most beautiful, moving piece of English I read in a very, very long time. K." Also included in the folder are typescripts of: "Intimacy" with handwritten note on the top of the first page: "Kay Cicellis, Program in Hellenic Studies, Joseph Henry House, Princeton University"; "Puppet Show" ("Translated by the author") accompanied by a rejection note from Chicago Review; "Re-Alignment" (Athens, November 3, 1978); "The Painter and his Model" (Athens, Spring 1982); an uncorrected typed manuscript of "To Make a Tree"; and a notebook entitled "Before and After. Seeing. Kay Cicellis, 1976. Kalymnos" including drafts of a lecture and the two short stories "Before and After" and "Seeing," as well as an introductory passage before the narrative of second story begins, covering just over one page, which was omitted from both the published versions (English and Greek), as well as from the typescript contained in the published collection The Painter and his Model. At the end of the notebook are some notes about a possible sequel to Tsitselē's story "Translation" (tentatively titled "Translation II").
Physical Description1 folder
Includes autograph and typed manuscript drafts.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes the stories: "Smokers Only," "The Case of Missing Floor," "A Sentence," "The Home Companion," and "A Hand". There are also Gisèle Jeanperin's French translations of the last two stories: "Une main" and "L'invisible cohabitante" with autograph notes by Tsitselē, as well as a letter from Jeanperin (1987).
Physical Description1 folder
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Includes one volume of the first draft of "The Home Companion," as well as the first draft of Tsitselē's English translation of Koula by Menēs Koumantareas.
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Includes a notebook with drafts and loose autograph notes for an unfinished novel The Split dated April 1966, in English. Chief characters are the twins, Valentino and Valentina, of different sexes who are in some ways one.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes a typescript copy (161 pp.) of an unpublished novel with multiple alternative titles dated October 1965, in three parts: "Circles," "Events," and "Serial." Main characters are a brother and a sister named Jojo and Hermengilde (submitted under this title to agent Curtis Brown; this is presumably the novel rejected by André Deutsch and Weidenfeld (and already rejected by Secker) in 1966.
Physical Description1 folder
This subseries comprises stories written by Tsitselē.
This subseries has been organized both alphabetically and chronologically.
Physical Description2 boxes
Includes several autograph manuscript drafts of the long story "Crossed Wires," with heavy handwritten corrections and annotations, as well as a typescript dated April 1986 (Athens). The story was published in the literary magazine Delos, 6-7 (Summer-Fall 1989), 137-167.
Physical Description2 folders
Includes autograph manuscript notes about Tsitselē's story, as well as a printed copy published in the Quarterly Review of Literature, 17/3-4 (1971), 282-318. There are also clippings of The Observer Review (September 24 and October 1, 1967).
Physical Description1 folder
Includes typescript drafts of the short story "Proportions" (previous title "Observer") written in November 1970 and published in Shenandoch, 27/1 (Fall 1975). One of the drafts bears Tsitselē's note "Stēn Ersē Lanke gia ton tomo "Hellēnides pezographoi" Athena, 19.12.74" (in Ersi Lange). A Greek version of the story "Analogies" appears in Hellēnides pezographoi: syllogē diēgēmatōn. Synchronē Epochē, 1975, 261-272.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes typescripts of untitled early stories on pink paper with note "First Mss KC" together with a typescript beginning "The rubbish-gatherer tramped," which was published under the title the "Twilight in Athens" and the pseudonym Helen Diamantis in Orientations, 9 (Cairo, April 1943), 40-41. There is aslo an autograph manuscript draft of the story entitled "Decline" signed "K.C. 16.8.43," with later penciled note added by the author: "aged 15? perhaps my very first story - never published thank God" [this is not true since "Bread" and "Twilight in Athens" had already been published; carbon copies of the short stories: "Mother Nature" published in Paris Review, 6 (Summer 1954); "End of Season" or "The Proxy" dated October 1953 and published in Death of a Town (1954); "Orpheus in Hades" dated Sept. 17th, 1954 and published in The Atlantic, 195/6 (1955); "Journey into Language" published in International PEN Bulletin of Selected Books, 7/1 (Spring 1956), 3-8 and elsewhere; typescript of "A Carnival Masque" published in Envoy, London, Feb. 1956, 12-13, 23-24, 26; two typescripts of the story "Exposure" signed and dated April 7th, 1964, both bearing handwritten emendations and one the hanwritten note: "published only in Greek, I think Epoches certainly not in book form." There is also an autograph manuscript draft (undated) of the same story with croseed out title "The Removal." Included in the folder is a typescript of an original English text titled "Two Windows" by Tsitselē which was then translated by Lina Kasdaglē and published in journal Epoches, 35 (March 1966), 218-222; "The Ghost Goes East" (autograph note on first page reads: "This must be ancient - 1955/6/7?"); "The Parting of the Waters" dated 9.10.52 with handwritten corrections; a carbon copy of "Greek Awakening"; and an autograph manuscript of "A time to Say Goodnight," dated 14.9.54.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes typescript drafts with handwritten corrections of the following stories: "The Mark" dated September 1970, with title crossed out "One Flesh." Author's note on verso of the last page reads: "The idea came from [Alexandros] Panagoulis in hiding"]. There is also a photocopy of the printed version of the text published in Mundus Artium, 4/1 (Winter 1970), 14-18 (included is one typed letter from Kostas Myrsiades to Tsitselē); the text "Panagoulis: Two Photographs-Two Texts" dated May 1976 and published in boundary 2, (Winter 1976-1977); "La Grande Maison" translated into French by Françoise Hamelin and published in Présence , 6 [Geneva and Lausanne], (Winter 1957-1958), 41-52; "On a Cold and Windy Morning" dated Athens, February 1, 1981 (rejected by the London Magazine) together with the first three autograph manuscript drafts of the story (the first draft is entitled "The Sharing of a Sentence" and the third "(A) Sentence").
Physical Description1 folder
This subseries consists of typescripts and autograph manuscript drafts of Kaiē Tsitselē's articles, lectures and talks, book reviews, and presentations in the media.
This subseries has been organized by type of material.
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Includes a typescript draft of the text which was written by Tsitselē in the wake of the Turkish occupation of Cyprus and the fall of the Greek military dictatorship in July 1974.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes various versions of typescript drafts of the text, which is based on her experience of translating subtitles for TV productions of performances of ancient Greek drama, as well as autograph drafts of her English translation of the subtitles. Some of the sheets are written on the reverse side of a discarted text that appears to be a draft of Tsitselē's transaltion of a text by Manolis Andronikos about his discovery of the tomb Philip II at Vergina.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes typescript drafts and correspondence with the project editor, Karen Van Dyck relating to Tsitselē's contribution to the publication of the book Greece [Insight Guides] (Hong Kong: APA Productions, 1986).
Physical Description1 folder
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Includes an autograph manuscript draft in Greek of a review article on three recent Greek translations of George Orwell: one of Keep the Aspidistra Flying and two of Animal Farm published in Hē Kathēmerinē, 9 May 1976. Author notes erroneously on manuscript that it was published in To Vēma. There are 2 pages of manuscript notes entitled "Hoi dyo aphentes" both in Greek and in English beginning "The orgy of translation," as well as typescript drafts on translation bearing heavy handwritten corrections. Included also is a typescript of the text "Introduction" in English published in Descant XVIII [Toronto], 8/ 2 (1977); autograph manuscript drafts of "Diorthōsē typographikou lathous" published in Hē Lexē, 18 (Oct. 1982), 661 (note by Tsitselē about an exclamation mark that was printed instead of a full stop at the end of her text "Hena cheri").
Physical Description1 folder
Includes an autograph manuscript draft of the text "Cephalonia the First"(note at top of the manuscript reads: ("published in Griechische Inseln DuMont-Verlag") [ed. Evi Mylonas, Köln, 1976]; there is also a typescript of Tsitselē's original English text together with an American translation of a German translation of same text. English original published in Descant XVIII, 8/2(1977). Also included is an untitled printed text, in a group of texts by five prosewriters, under the group title "Phanontas stēn poiēsē pezē" for the literary magazine Poiēsē, 15 (Spring-Summer 2000), 92; typescript draft of the article "18 Texts" together with the English translation of Tsitselē's Greek story "Dialogue" ["Dialogos"] published in Dekaochtō keimena and documents relating to the book; a photocopy of the printed article "Sēmeiōseis henos aneparkous anagnōstē" published in the literary magazine Hē Lexē, 53 (March-April 1986).
Physical Description1 folder
Includes autograph manuscript drafts in a diary (1985 diary) of two unpublished articles in Greek titled: "Mesa ki' exō apo ton elephantino pyrgo" and "Gia ton Manos Chatzidakēs" [sic]. There is also a typescript draft of an untitled article for Newsweek regarding the Greek military dictatorship. Tsitselē's note at the end of the text reads: "written at the request of Newsweek but not published - then wanted me to sign it, but I refused as it was too dangerous at the time."
Physical Description1 folder
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Includes a notebook, autograph manuscript drafts, and notes of the text "Zissimos Lorenzatos: The Lost Center and other essays in Greek Poetry" (originally given as a lecture in Athens (November 29, 1983) in a series with the same title as the published volume: Nasos Detzōrtzēs et al., Ta keimena apo glōssa se glōssa (Athēna: Hetaireia Spoudōn Neoellēnikou Politismou kai Genikēs Paideias, 1984), 68-87. There is also the program of the Hetaireia, as well as a lunch menu of a Greek restaurant which Tsitselē used as an example of how not to translate from Greek to English (1989).
Physical Description1 folder
Includes autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of three versions of texts by Tsitselē on translating Tsirkas's Akyvernētes politeies. According to Tsitselē's note, the original talk was given in Alexandria, Egypt, in English, during the Second International Symposium K. Kavafis (15-19 November 1992) and finally published in Greek as "Gia ton Tsirka" in Hē Lexē, (Nov.-Dec. 1996), 746-50. Also included is the typescript of the original version of the talk entitled: "Translating Tsirkas, remembering Tsirkas" and the program of the Sixth International Symposium K. Kavafis in Alexandria (11-14 November 1996).
Physical Description1 folder
Includes several typescript drafts of the above lecture originally given at Princeton University (March 29, 1994), then at Columbia Univeristy (April 9, 1994), and finally at the symposium "The Translation of Modern Greek Literature into English", Delphi (September 1993). It was published in The Seattle Review, 18/2 (Spring-Summer 1996), 34-39. Included also is a manuscript draft with the alternative title "The Translator's Dilemma"; flyers of the two lectures; and the program of the symposium in Delphi.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes Tsitselē's reviews of writings by several Greek authors. There is an autograph manuscript draft of the review of Tzina Politē's book The Novel and its Presuppositions, eventually published in the Greek newspaper Kathēmerinē, 19 May 1977; a typescript of The Synaxari Antrea Kordopatē by Thanasēs Valtinos (present also is the printed version published in Books Abroad with photocopies of a newspaper clipping); and an autograph manuscript of the review of Maria Douka's Hē archaia skouria.
Physical Description1 folder
This subseries consists of Radio Programs, TV Programs, Interviews, Scripts, and an Opera.
This subseries has been organized mostly by type of material.
Physical Description2 boxes
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Includes a bound copy of the script/scenario "The Death of a Town" for a radio play (broadcast on the BBC Third Program on January 18 and 20, 1954, and repeated on the BBC Home Service, August 23, 1955), adapted by Tsitselē from her novella with the same title; the play was performed with incidental music by Elizabeth Lutyens; broadcast submitted by the BBC for the Italian Prize, 1995.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes typescript drafts of the following: "The Unresolved Past" broadcasted on BBC Third Program (August 8, 1951) regarding the situation of young Greek writers at the time; the talk "Personal View" broadcasted on BBC Home Service (December 4, 1950); drafts and other documents relating to BBC radio broadcast "Third Ear Modern Greek Novels", 1992 (on the occasion of the event "Contemporary Greek Fiction and Translation: A Celebration" at King's College, London, March 9, 1992, to celebrate the Kedros series of English translations of modern Greek fictions). There are also two texts about translating Koumandareas's Koula and P. Ampatzoglou's What Does Mrs. Freeman Want? (perhaps read at King's College in 1992); two versions of drafts with heavy handwritten corrections of a text (perhaps intended as a radio talk by the BBC), tentatively entitled "The Third Way?".
Physical Description1 folder
Includes a notebook written both in Greek and in English relating to a TV program entitled "Themata kai vivlia."
Physical Description1 folder
Includes an autograph manuscript of the interview given by Tsitselē to the Greek newspaper Mesēmvrinē, as well as the clipping dated 30 May 1980; autograph and typescript drafts of the interview with Tsitselē by Misel Fais as well as by Alexandros P. Papamarkou for BBC Greek Service, recorded on December 26, 1959 on the publication of her novel Ten Seconds From Now but also on The Road to Colonos, which she was currently working on. There are also autograph manuscript notes of Tsitselē's TV interview with Tsirkas in July 1983, as well as with Thanasis Valtinos for Greek TV (1978 or after).
Physical Description1 folder
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Includes photocopies of a typescript of an untitled scenario, marked "Nigerian scenario" on envelope in which it was formermly kept, dated May 30, 1964. The text is dedicated to Barney Rosset.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes a typescript draft of scenario of a TV film by Makēs Mōraitēs based on Tsitselē's story "Mikros dialogos" (originally published in the volume Dekaochtō keimena. Athens: Kedros, 1970, 17-21).
Physical Description1 folder
Includes the first typescript draft with handwritten corrections and one bound corrected copy of a dramatic dialogue broadcast on BBC Third Program.
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Includes one bound typescript copy of the play written by Tsitselē and produced by David Thomson (broadcast by BBC Home Service on December 20, 1955).
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Includes typescripts of Tsitselē's two short drama texts (scripts) both submitted to the BBC but rejected according to her notes on the verso of the last page of the texts; and one letter from BBC dated July 1960. There is also a notebook with three texts: the Greek version of "Objets Perdus"; a draft titled "Suspicion" of English narrative; and "The Birds."
Physical Description1 folder
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Includes several typescript drafts (undated) of the libretto for the opera The Return written by Tsitselē and Chrysanthē Klēridē and composed by Arghyris Kounadis (c. 1961-1962 and after). There is also Tsitselē's notebook with a draft of "Hē epistrophē" in Greek. The opera eventually premiered in 1991. There are letters from Kounadis to Tsitselē and one to Chrysanthē Klēridē. The correspondence has been placed in separate folders (see Box 8, folder 3). Also included is a copy of the contract with Edition Modern dated 1962 and a printed program of the opera, as well as a bound typescript in German: Die Wiederkehr.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes a typescript of the libretto in one act "Hē epistrophē" in Greek. Text is written by Chrysanthē Klēridē and Kaiē Tsitselē and based on the second part of Tsitselē's book The Way to Colonos. Also included is a contract with Ethnikē Lyrikē Skēnē (E.L.S.), dated 1991 and a press release regarding the artistic activities of E.L.S.; two printed programs (1991); and clippings of Greek newspapers and magazines relating to Kounadis's work.
Physical Description1 folder
This subseries consists of typescripts and autograph manuscript drafts of published translations in English by Kaiē Tsitselē of works by other writers.
This subseries has been organized alphabetically by title.
Physical Description2 boxes
Includes a carbon typescript draft of Tsitselē's translation of part of the text by Stratēs Tsirkas relating how some of his trilogy Akyvernētes politeies was written. This translation was published as Drifting Cities. New York: Knopf, 1974.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes autograph (October 3, 1952) and typescript drafts (undated) of Tsitselē's unpublished English translation of the novel Eroica by Kosmas Politēs; an offprint of the review "Diavazontas tēn Eroica tou Kosma Politē" by Al. Dimantopoulos published in Ta Nea Grammata (1939); correspondence (1 holograph and 1 typed letter) with the editor of Penguin Books Ltd, Martin Soames, regarding the above translation.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes an autograph manuscript draft and a typescript copy of Tsitselē's English translation of Ersē Sōtēropoulou's novel which was eventually published in Harvard Review, 15 (Fall 1998). There is also a typescript draft of an interview given by Sotēropoulou to the periodical Art News and translated in English by Tsitselē.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes a notebook (1949) with drafts of the English translation of samples of To kivōtio by Arēs Alexandrou. There is also a copy of the introduction written by Robert Crist; a synopsis composed by the author; a brief biographical note on Alexandrou; a holograph by Kaitē Drossou to Tsitselē (1987); and photocopies of two typed letters by Giannēs Ritsos to Alexandrou, dated 1972. The novel was eventually published by Kedros (1996) in English translation by Robert Christ.
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Includes a typed manuscript draft with handwritten corrections of Tsitselē's English translation of Menēs Koumantareas's novel Hē kyria Koula. Athens: Kedros 1991.
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Includes an undated autograph manuscript first draft (pp. 324) of Tsitselē's English translation of the novel Vios tou Ismaēl Pherik Pasa [ The Life of Ismail Ferik Pasha. London ; Chester Springs, PA : P. Owen, 1996] by Rea Galanakē. There are photocopies of clippings of various Greek, English, and French literary magazines relating to the novel; and a typescript of the article "Thorns in the Side of Venice? Galanakē's Pasha and Pamuk's White Castle in the Global Market" by Vangelis Calotychos and his letter to Tsitselē (Feb. 6, 1996).
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Includes a typescript with handwritten corrections of Tsitselē's English translation of Petros Abatzoglou's novel Ti thelei hē kyria Phrēman?. 1st U.S. ed. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2005. There is also a clipping of the Greek newspaper Kathēmerinē, Aug. 27, 1987.
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Includes autograph manuscript drafts of the play in two acts by Margarita Lymperakē, translated from the Greek by Tsitselē, in two notebooks.
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Includes drafts with handwritten emendations of Tsitselē's translations in English of works by various authors (some uncertain whether or not were translated by Tsitselē): "Excerpts from Erōtokritos" by George Seferis (1946); "The Boss" by M. Karagatsis; The Other Alexander by Margarita Lymperakē; Sleep by Angelos Terzakēs; the play Letter to Orestēs by Iakōvos Kampanellēs; "Birds" by Zyranna Zatelē. There are also clippings of American newspapers (1964-1965) with reviews on the book Their Most Serene Majesties by Ange Vlachos in English translation by Tsitselē. Additionally, there are loose pages of autograph manuscript notes by Tsitselē on possibly two texts translated by others from English to Greek [the inscription "White" on one of the pages refers possibly to Patrick White's Hē Historia tēs Theias, tr. Serapheim Veletzas. Athens: Hestia 1988.
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Includes documents relating to Tsitselē's translation of the senario of Dēmētrios Maurikios's film Raleile (1995-1996); an undated notebook with an uncorrected autograph manuscript of the translation of Hē epistrophē tēs Helenēs by Thanos Mikroutsikos and Christos Lamprakēs; programs of the theatric play Uly Sinbad by Xenia Kalogeropoulou; correspondence with Unicorn Theater in London and Mypt regarding payments and royalties of the above play (1987).
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Consists primarily of personal and professional correspondence Kaie Tsitselē exchanged with friends, publishers, institutions, and organizations.
This series has been organized into two subseries: A. Personal and B. Publishers-Institutions.
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This subseries comprises correspondence Tsitselē mostly received from friends and acquaintances.
This subseries has been organized alphabetically by last name of correspondent.
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Correspondence regarding a planned anthology in English of post-war Greek short stories.
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Includes mostly outgoing correspondence to Kleiridē. There are also two holographs from Nikos Kazantzakis to Kleiridē (July and August 1947), in Greek and one from Capetanakis Demetrios.
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Includes mostly outgoing correspondence to Kleiridē; a holograph by Arghyris Kounadis with a page of a draft for the libretto The Return dated 1961, and two letters of unidentified senders.
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Includes a draft of an autograph letter from Tsitselē to Kotzias about his published novel Antipoiēsis Archēs here.
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Includes a vast amount of incoming correspondence from Kounadis relating to the opera The Return.
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Includes letters from Chatzidakis-Theophanopoulos; Mina Zanna; two cards from the Institut français d'Athènes (Greece) regarding the publication of an analysis of The Way to Colonos; and some letters from unidentified senders.
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This subseries includes correspondence Kaiē Tsitselē mostly received from publishers regarding the publication of her works, as well as her collaboration with various institutions and organizations.
This subseries has been arranged alphabetically by name or title of the publisher, the institution, or the organization.
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Includes correspondence relating to a plan to produce a book published by André Deutsch and edited by Tsitselē in 1967; plan abandoned because of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974. There is also correspondence with Patrick Leigh Fermor (2 letters); with Philip Sherrard (1 letter); and between Tsitselē and Cornelius Vermeule; photocopies of an autograph manuscript draft and a typescript of the article "Archaeology" by Vermeule; a typescript draft with handwritten corrections of the text "The Sprinkled Isles" by Robert Liddell; and a proposed list of contents and contributors.
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Includes correspondence between Tsitselē and Ivar Ivask (editor of Brooks Abroad); Tsitselē and Márquez; and Márquez and Ivask relating to the prize awarded to Gabriel García Márquez. There are clppings of various American newspapers; a printed invitation for the Books Abroad/Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1972); typescript copy of a list of jurors and candidates for the 1972 Books Abroad Prize, as well as presentations for two of the candidates, Márquez by Thor Vilhjálmsson and Claude Simon by Odysseas Elytēs. Also included is an autograph manuscript draft in Greek of Tsitselē's review of 100 chronia monaxias by Márquez; photocopies of a press release; and clippings of literary magazines.
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Includes the agreement for the play The Fantastic Voyage of Uly Sinbad (July 1986) and a letter by Tsitselē.
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Includes correspondence with the editor of the review Europa, Freddy de Medici.
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Includes correspondence and documents regarding the award of the Prix Formentor and the International Literary Prize, Corfu, 1963, for which Tsitselē was a member of the jury, accompanied by outgoing correspondence to Tsitselē and other members of the jury. There are also five black-and-white photographs of the event depicting Tsitselē, Kimon Friar, Barney Rosset and others (photographs have been placed in Box 10, folder 36).
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Includes a typescript copy of a list of the founding members of the Hetaireia and clippings of Greek newspapers.
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Includes correspondence and documents regarding Tsitselē's attempt to renew copyright on The Way to Colonos: A Greek Triptych.
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Includes correspondence with Peter Owen regarding Tsitselē's translation of Rea Galanakē's book Vios tou Ismaēl Pherik Pasa.
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Includes correspondence of Kaiē Tsitselē and Zēsimos Lorentzatos with Princeton University Press regarding Lorentzatos's book The Lost Center and other essays in Greek Poetry.
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Includes correspondence with the editor, James Boatwright.
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Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence with Prof. Fernando Ainsa related to Rea Galanakē's book The Life of Ismail Ferik Pasha.
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Consists of assorted printed material relating to Tsitselē's works.
This series has been organized by type of material.
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Includes 19 black-and-white photographs: 4 images (16 x 21.9 cm) of an international competition in literature (1965) where Tsitselē participated; 9 postcard photographs (7.7 x 13.5 cm.) of the Delphic Festival (1930) by Nelly's; 1 postcard photograph (0.9 x 14 cm.) of the Arch of Hadrian (Athens) by Neue Photogr. Gesellischaft (1898); and 5 miscellaneous images (11.7 x 0.8 cm.). There are also 15 black-and-white photographs, attached on mat board, of a coctail party dated November 19, 1954, in honor of John Steinbeck; and 5 black-and-white photographs of the Prix Formentor and the International Literary Prize event in Corfu in 1963, depicting Tsitselē, Kimon Friar, Barney Rosset, and others.
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This subseries comprises typescripts and autograph manuscript drafts of reviews of Tsitselē's biography; reviews of her books; and information relating to her participation in several literary or cultural events.
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Consists of a typescript copy and photocopies of literary magazines containing Tsitselē's biographical data.
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Consists of autograph manuscripts and typescripts of reviews of Tsitselē's books: No Name in the Street; The Easy Way; Ho thanatos mias polēs; To chameno patōma; and Ho dromos pros ton Kolōno. Also included is a typescript of a broadcast from the Greek program "The Arts in Britain" compiled by P. Kallinikos, 26.8.1952; a broadcast in BBC, 27 Aug., 1952; a review by George D. Painter published in The New Statesman and Nation, Aug. 16, 1952; "The Disillusioned" by Harold Nicolson published in The Observer, Aug. 3, 1952; a review by L.A. Strong published in The Spectator, Oct. 6, 1950; and a review by P.A. Zannas. There is also an issue of the French newspaper L'Express (23 October 1958) with a review by Bernard Pingaud.
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Includes a clipping of the article "Kaiē Tsitselē: A Way to Bilingual Writing" by George Giannaris published in The National Herald, Feb. 19-20, 2000; a copy of the article "Ta leuka gantia" by Vangelēs Pelekēs, 1989; and one letter from Giannaris to Tsitselē (April 2000).
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Consists of documents relating to Tsitselē's particpation in the Greek Month in London (Institute of Contemporary Arts), November 1975; a typescript text with handwritten emendations of Tsitselē's "Introduction" to special issue entitled Contemporary Greek Literature (1977) based on her talk at the Greek Month in London (1975); clippings of Greek newspapers such as Ta Nea (1 Oct. 1975 and 4 Oct. 1975) and Augē (25 Dec. 1975); an issue of the literary magazine The Athenian, 2 (Feb. 1976), including the article "A Diary of the Greek Month in London"; correspondecne with the faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge; and extensive correpsondence with Rober Rowe from the Institute of Contemporary Arts. There is also a booklet titled "Books on Modern Greece" published by the National Book League.
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Includes documents related to the Translation Committee of the Greek Ministry of Culture, 1998-99; official lists; and Tsitselē's autograph miscellaneous notes on the quality of translations from English to Greek and vice-versa.
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Includes Tsitselē's autograph draft quotations and excerpts from various books and magazines.
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This subseries comprises 7 book covers of Tsitselē's books. Included are: Death of a Town. London : Harvill Press, [1954]; The Easy Way (New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [1950]; New York: Grove Press); Flut und Ebbe: Novellen. Köln ; Berlin : Kiepenheuer & Witsch, [1953]; No Name in the Street. New York : Grove Press, c1953; Kein Name bei den Leuten. Köln : Kiepenheuer & Witsch [1953]; Ten Seconds from Now. New York : Grove Press, [1958?], c1957; Tod einer Stadt. Köln ; Berlin : Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1956.
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Included are: "Panagoulis: Two Photographs-Two Texts" published in boundary 2, 5/2 (Winter 1977) (4 items); "Diakomidē" published in Epoches, Aug. 1964, 3-11 (6 items); a photocopy of "Exposure" in English translation by Lina Kasdaglē; "Translation" published in Shenandoah, 30/4 (1979); "Zissimos Lorenzatos: The Lost Center and Other Essays in Greek Poetry", from vol. Nasos Detzōrtzēs et al., Keimena apo glōssa se glōssa, Athens 1984 (2 items).
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Consists of Greek and British journals and literary magazines including Kaiē Tsitselē's works. They have been arranged alphabetically by title.
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Consists of Greek and British magazines including Kaiē Tsitselē's works. They have been arranged alphabetically by title.
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Consists of the following issues: 143 (January 5, 1957), 144 (January 12, 1957), 156 (April 6, 1957), 316 (April 30, 1960), 317 (May 7, 1960), 318 (May 14, 1960), 383 (August 12, 1961), and 473 (May 4, 1963).
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Consists of clippings of Greek, English, American, and French newspapers containing short stories, articles, or book reviews written by Tsitselē.
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Consists of clippings of several Greek, English, American, and French newspapers containing reviews of Tsitselē's works.
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Includes clippings containing Tsitselē's review article "Ta dyo aphentika," published in Hē Kathēmerinē, 9 May 1976; a book review by Tsitselē "Anazētēsē tēs chamenēs hēgemonias"; a short story "The Late Hours" published in Athens News (date is missing); the story Aegean Storm published in series in Athens News (21 March 1952-27 March 1952); and a clipping of an interview.
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Consists of works of other people. Included are texts, articles, short stories, poems, scripts, and radio talks. A few of the material of other authors have no obvious connection with Kaiē Tsitselē. At the end, there are newspaper clippings and various documents.
This series has been organized alphabetically by last name of the author.
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Includes one bound typescript of the radio text "Embers" written by Beckett and broadcast in BBC Third Program, 24 June 1959.
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Includes one bound typescript copy of three original motion picture scripts (under the general title "Project I"): "An Untitled Film" by Samuel Beckett; "The Hard-Boiked Egg" by Eugène Ionesco; and "The Compartment" by Harold Pinter (May, 1963).
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Includes photocopies of a printed article "Hē metaphrasē kai hoi logoi tēs" by Berman, translated into Greek by Vangelēs Bitsōrēs and published in Poiēsē, 10 (1997).
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Includes one bound typescript ("Project II") of an original film script by Duras with the working title Lol Blair [1963].
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Includes a typescript copy of the text "To anti-cheri" written by Gkritsē-Milliex in response to Tsitselē's piece "Hena cheri," published in the book To chameno patōma.
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Includes a typescript of the article "Word Against Word - Meaning into Meaning: Conflict and Reconciliation in Translation" accompanied by a letter from Heliōtēs to Tsitselē dated June 1995.
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Includes typescripts (3 items) of King's story called "Ted and the Pie People" (1995). There are also manuscripts of three short fictions entitled: "Sunday" and "Permafrost" with autograph annotations by Tsitselē; and correspondence (2 letters) between Tsitselē and King (1994).
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Includes a typescript of the text "An introduction to the work of the author".
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Included are autograph manuscripts and typescripts of the following texts: "Hoi hypochreōseis tou anthrōpou stēn psychē tou"; "Synkrisē tou antrou tēs Kalypsōs (tou Homērou) kai tou palatiou kai tou kēpou tou Digenē Akrita"; "Ho choros sēmera"; "Palioi kairoi"; typescript of the play The Return; "Rome, an Oblique View" (pp. 51); "Skepseis gyrō apo to thema 'Synchronē technē kai paradosē'"; "The Moment of Decision"; and several others, as well as autograph notes of Klēridē's thoughts spanning from 1949 to 1960. The second folder includes autograph manuscripts and typescripts of poems and ballet stories; black-and-white photographs of Klēridē; and clippings of Greek newspapers relating to her death.
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Includes photocopies of a printed article with the title "Quatre-Vingt-Neuf Mots," by Kundera.
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Includes a photocopy of the printed article "Pēgolatres ē stocholatres" translated into Greek by Catherine Collet and Víctor Ivanovici.
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Includes a typescript of the play Portrait of Athens written and produced by MacNeice (1951).
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Includes a typescript of the article "The Herm in the Machine- Hermes, Hermeti, Hermeneutic".
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Includes photocopies of typescripts of a film with the working title Frank's Return, written and directed by Robbe.
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Includes printer's proofs of stories to be published in Harvard Review.
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Includes typescripts of Karen Van Dyck's articles in English and a lecture in Greek: "The Way to Colonos: A Greek Triptych" (for a volume that was never published); "Diaspora, Translation, and Women's Writing"; and "Hē gynaikeia graphē kai hē glōssikē kai politismikē heterotēta." There is also a photocopy of a printed article "The Woman of Zakynthos" by Dionysios Solōmos in English translation by Marianthe Colakis published in Charioteer, 1982/1983, 24 and 25.
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Consists of clippings of Greek and English newspapers.
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Included are clippings of various Greek and English newspapers regarding the art of translation: Hē Kathēmerinē (12 Mar. 1989); The Independent (26 Aug. 1989); The Globe and Mail (Jan. 28, 1995); Eleutherotypia (15 Mar. 1989); autograph jottings by Tsitselē; clippings of several other Greek newspapers; and English newspapers spanning from 1971-1972, 1978-1979, 1984, and 1994.
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Includes one bound catalog with a list of books translated into Greek and published by the National Bank of Greece, 1988; a printed video catalog entitled "Writers talk, ideas of our time" (undated); one bound copy of the dissertation "La Psychopathologie du tremblement de terre" by Peter Hartocollis (1955); an offprint "Cure by Exorcism in the Island of Cephalonia" by the same author; 2 offprints "Une petite lumière dans la nuit" (1959) and "Kazantzakis, le fraternel" (undated) by Andrée Quereuil.
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Includes a copy of the by-laws of the P.E.N. charter.
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Includes the libretto The Return by Kaiē Tsitselē and Chrysanthē Kleridē in music by Arghyris Kounadis; one-act opera based on the homonymous novella by Tsitselē taken from the book The Way to Colonos and transferred from Ulf Thomson.
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