Summary
Henry Miller: First Impressions of Greece
First Impressions of Greece were created during Henry Miller's stay in Greece in 1939. It is a long letter, that is, a writing, which he wrote and left to the Greek poet and later Nobel laureate Giorgos Seferis (1900–1971), and after the poet's death, it was published by his widow, Mara Seferiadis. It is also the writing in which "Colossus of Marussia" was conceived, a travelogue that Miller would write a year later, upon his return to New York. Spontaneous and meditative at the same time, rich in ideas and observations that bare the spirit, First Impressions of Greece has not lost its literary charm, and many critical insights about modern life and expectations from it are still, unfortunately, current.
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