Stratos E. Constantinidis. Modern Greek Theatre: a Quest for Hellenism.(Book Review)

From: Comparative Drama | Date: March 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Jefferson, North Carolina: McFadand, 2001. Pp. x + 198. $34.95 paperbound.

"Can [Greek] postmodernism find its way out of the loop of Greek modernism?" This is one of the questions asked by Stratus Constantinidis (29) in his new book Modern Greek Theatre: A Quest for Hellenism, which offers a revisionist account of the state of modern Greek drama from the late Enlightenment to the 1970s. The issue of modernism can hardly be avoided in any discussion of Greek literature, though, as Constantinidis wryly observes, "Like Homer's Scylla and Charybdis, modernism and postmodernism ...

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