A l'ouest de la tristesse, précédé de Les élégies d'Oxopétra. Arts The paradox reveals a blind

The paradox reveals a blind collector

scenes of life

whom he commissioned to draw the landscapes he crossed and the monuments he visited

It remained the capital of the island until Emperor Constantine preferred Salamis

Resté inachevé à la mort de l'auteur

A l'ouest de la tristesse, précédé de Les élégies d'Oxopétra. Arts The paradox reveals a blindThis edition offers a bilingual version of the last two collections of Odysseas Elytis, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, The Oxopetra Elegies , published in 1991, and To the West of Sadness , published in 1995, a year before the Greek poet's death. Elytis deploys all the telluric force of the poem, in an incantatory language that submerges the world, reveals it in its solar dimension, in a profusion of elements customary to the poet: the