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袨泻芯
袟斜褨褉泻邪 芯锌芯胁褨写邪薪褜 泻邪薪邪写褋褜泻芯褩 锌芯械褌械褋懈 褨 锌懈褋褜屑械薪薪懈褑褨 袦械褉褨械薪薪 袦邪泄泻褉芯褋 写邪褉褍褦 胁褨写褔褍褌褌褟 屑邪谐褨褩 卸懈褌褌褟, 褍 褟泻芯屑褍 薪械蟹斜邪谐薪械薪薪械 薪械胁懈屑褍褕械薪芯 褋锌褨胁褨褋薪褍褦 锌芯褉褍褔 蟹褨 蟹褉芯蟹褍屑褨谢懈屑 褨 蟹胁懈褔薪懈屑, 屑褨褎 鈥� 胁懈褉芯褋褌邪褦 蟹 锌褉邪谐屑邪褌懈褔薪芯褩 褨 斜褍写械薪薪芯褩 褉械邪谢褜薪芯褋褌褨 褨 胁褌褨谢褞褦褌褜褋褟 褍 泻芯卸薪芯屑褍 薪邪褋褌褍锌薪芯屑褍 锌芯泻芯谢褨薪薪褨.
孝褉懈薪邪写褑褟褌褜 褨褋褌芯褉褨泄 薪邪锌懈褋邪薪褨 锌褉芯褋褌芯褞 锌褉芯蟹芯褉芯褞 屑芯胁芯褞, 锌褉懈褌邪屑邪薪薪芯褞 斜褨谢褜褕械 写谢褟 胁薪褍褌褉褨褕薪褨褏 褉芯蟹写褍屑褨胁. 袦邪斜褍褌褜, 褋邪屑械 褌芯屑褍 胁芯薪懈 写邪褞褌褜 胁褨写褔褍褌褌褟 褌褨褦褩 褨薪褌懈屑薪芯褋褌褨, 褟泻械 薪械屑芯卸谢懈胁芯 褋褌胁芯褉懈褌懈 褕褌褍褔薪芯 褨 褟泻械 写芯蟹胁芯谢褟褦 薪械 锌褉芯褋褌芯 褋褏芯锌懈褌懈 褋褞卸械褌 褉芯蟹锌芯胁褨写褨, 邪谢械 泄 锌械褉械卸懈褌懈 褩褩 褨 蟹薪邪泄褌懈 褍 薪褨泄 褋械斜械. 袚械褉芯褩薪褨 袦邪泄泻褉芯褋 写芯褋懈褌褜 锌褉懈褉芯写薪芯 锌褉懈泄屑邪褞褌褜 褍 褋胁芯褦 卸懈褌褌褟 薪械蟹斜邪谐薪械薪薪械 褨 屑褨褋褌懈褔薪械, 写邪褞褌褜 褉邪写褍 蟹 胁褉芯泻邪屑懈 褨 锌褉懈褋褌褉褨褌芯屑, 胁屑褨褞褌褜 蟹邪屑芯胁谢褟褌懈 褏胁芯褉芯斜懈 褨 谐芯胁芯褉懈褌懈 蟹 锌芯屑械褉谢懈屑懈. 袙芯薪懈 薪械 斜褉械褕褍褌褜 褋芯斜褨, 邪谢械 胁芯写薪芯褔邪褋 薪械 胁锌邪写邪褞褌褜 褍 褉芯蟹锌邪褔 胁褨写 胁谢邪褋薪芯褩 锌褉邪胁写懈, 褟泻芯褞 斜 谐褨褉泻芯褞 褌邪 锌褉邪胁写邪 薪械 斜褍谢邪. 袞褨薪泻懈 袦邪泄泻褉芯褋 屑褨褑薪芯 褋褌芯褟褌褜 薪芯谐邪屑懈 薪邪 褌芯屑褍 覒褉褍薪褌褨, 写械 褩屑 写芯胁芯写懈褌褜褋褟 褌胁芯褉懈褌懈 褋胁芯褦 卸懈褌褌褟. 小褞卸械褌懈 芯锌芯胁褨写邪薪褜 褉芯蟹谐芯褉褌邪褞褌褜褋褟 褍 褉褨蟹薪懈褏 泻褉邪褩薪邪褏, 蟹邪 褉褨蟹薪懈褏 褔邪褋褨胁 褨 蟹邪 褉褨蟹薪懈褏 芯斜褋褌邪胁懈薪.
孝褉懈薪邪写褑褟褌褜 褨褋褌芯褉褨泄 薪邪锌懈褋邪薪褨 锌褉芯褋褌芯褞 锌褉芯蟹芯褉芯褞 屑芯胁芯褞, 锌褉懈褌邪屑邪薪薪芯褞 斜褨谢褜褕械 写谢褟 胁薪褍褌褉褨褕薪褨褏 褉芯蟹写褍屑褨胁. 袦邪斜褍褌褜, 褋邪屑械 褌芯屑褍 胁芯薪懈 写邪褞褌褜 胁褨写褔褍褌褌褟 褌褨褦褩 褨薪褌懈屑薪芯褋褌褨, 褟泻械 薪械屑芯卸谢懈胁芯 褋褌胁芯褉懈褌懈 褕褌褍褔薪芯 褨 褟泻械 写芯蟹胁芯谢褟褦 薪械 锌褉芯褋褌芯 褋褏芯锌懈褌懈 褋褞卸械褌 褉芯蟹锌芯胁褨写褨, 邪谢械 泄 锌械褉械卸懈褌懈 褩褩 褨 蟹薪邪泄褌懈 褍 薪褨泄 褋械斜械. 袚械褉芯褩薪褨 袦邪泄泻褉芯褋 写芯褋懈褌褜 锌褉懈褉芯写薪芯 锌褉懈泄屑邪褞褌褜 褍 褋胁芯褦 卸懈褌褌褟 薪械蟹斜邪谐薪械薪薪械 褨 屑褨褋褌懈褔薪械, 写邪褞褌褜 褉邪写褍 蟹 胁褉芯泻邪屑懈 褨 锌褉懈褋褌褉褨褌芯屑, 胁屑褨褞褌褜 蟹邪屑芯胁谢褟褌懈 褏胁芯褉芯斜懈 褨 谐芯胁芯褉懈褌懈 蟹 锌芯屑械褉谢懈屑懈. 袙芯薪懈 薪械 斜褉械褕褍褌褜 褋芯斜褨, 邪谢械 胁芯写薪芯褔邪褋 薪械 胁锌邪写邪褞褌褜 褍 褉芯蟹锌邪褔 胁褨写 胁谢邪褋薪芯褩 锌褉邪胁写懈, 褟泻芯褞 斜 谐褨褉泻芯褞 褌邪 锌褉邪胁写邪 薪械 斜褍谢邪. 袞褨薪泻懈 袦邪泄泻褉芯褋 屑褨褑薪芯 褋褌芯褟褌褜 薪芯谐邪屑懈 薪邪 褌芯屑褍 覒褉褍薪褌褨, 写械 褩屑 写芯胁芯写懈褌褜褋褟 褌胁芯褉懈褌懈 褋胁芯褦 卸懈褌褌褟. 小褞卸械褌懈 芯锌芯胁褨写邪薪褜 褉芯蟹谐芯褉褌邪褞褌褜褋褟 褍 褉褨蟹薪懈褏 泻褉邪褩薪邪褏, 蟹邪 褉褨蟹薪懈褏 褔邪褋褨胁 褨 蟹邪 褉褨蟹薪懈褏 芯斜褋褌邪胁懈薪.
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January 3, 2024
Barely managed to finish, skimmed through the second part. Probably not my cup of tea, a couple of stories were actually okay.
July 24, 2018
I was provided a digital advance reader copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I suppose you could say the cover of this book鈥� caught my eye. After reading it, I鈥檓 not quite sure what to make of it. Eye is a loosely thematic collection of short stories that mostly center around, you guessed it, the eye. About as strong is the focus on Greece: its myths, its history, and its superstitions, most prominently the 鈥渆vil eye.鈥� The author is a retired English professor of Greek heritage, and both of these facts come through in her writing.
The first half of the book includes stories that take place on various Greek islands, most of them about the evil eye, the advent of modernity in rural Greece, or both. The similarities between the stories make them tend to run together, especially when the same handful of names is recycled across stories. It鈥檚 unclear whether the author intended some characters to be present in different stories or if she simply wanted to emphasize how common these names are.
With so many stories in similar settings with similar topics, it becomes clear that some are weaker than others, less fleshed out, scraps that could easily have been excised from the collection. 鈥淣o Man鈥� is a decent introduction to the concept of the evil eye, so I understand why Micros chose to place it at the beginning, but as a story, it falls flat compared to the eerie tone that was likely intended. 鈥淭he Midwife鈥� and 鈥淭hirteen鈥� are likewise unimpressive, and 鈥淧aved鈥� is just difficult to read.
I suppose you could say the cover of this book鈥� caught my eye. After reading it, I鈥檓 not quite sure what to make of it. Eye is a loosely thematic collection of short stories that mostly center around, you guessed it, the eye. About as strong is the focus on Greece: its myths, its history, and its superstitions, most prominently the 鈥渆vil eye.鈥� The author is a retired English professor of Greek heritage, and both of these facts come through in her writing.
The first half of the book includes stories that take place on various Greek islands, most of them about the evil eye, the advent of modernity in rural Greece, or both. The similarities between the stories make them tend to run together, especially when the same handful of names is recycled across stories. It鈥檚 unclear whether the author intended some characters to be present in different stories or if she simply wanted to emphasize how common these names are.
With so many stories in similar settings with similar topics, it becomes clear that some are weaker than others, less fleshed out, scraps that could easily have been excised from the collection. 鈥淣o Man鈥� is a decent introduction to the concept of the evil eye, so I understand why Micros chose to place it at the beginning, but as a story, it falls flat compared to the eerie tone that was likely intended. 鈥淭he Midwife鈥� and 鈥淭hirteen鈥� are likewise unimpressive, and 鈥淧aved鈥� is just difficult to read.
July 16, 2019
Marianne Micros, retired English professor with an interest in ancient religion and folklore, has written an intriguing collection of stories that explores the connections between magic and everyday life. Readers will immediately notice the prominence given to Greek mythology in these stories. In the first, 鈥淣o Man,鈥� a boy who finds the head of Orpheus and who looks into its eyes, is endowed with the power to see into the future. 鈥淥ne Hundred Eyes鈥� is a retelling of the myth of Io, one of the mortal lovers of Zeus, who was transformed into a cow. 鈥淭he Minotaur鈥� brings the Greek myths into the present day: an unmarried, unemployed woman distracts herself by attending open houses and pretending to be in the market for a house to buy. One property (owned by a retired Classics professor) features a back garden complete with gazebo, maze and statues of mythological figures. While the agent is occupied with another client, the woman sneaks into the garden and, becoming caught up in the story of Ariadne, Theseus and the minotaur, and losing herself in the maze, undergoes a strange hallucinatory spiritual awakening. Other stories depict human characters grappling with curses, ghosts and creatures from folklore, such as changelings. For the most part, Micros sets her stories in a contemporary or near contemporary world, which gives the incongruous presence of spirits, healers and the 鈥渆vil eye鈥� a heightened and compelling eeriness. In the end, the collection comes across as a sort of experiment, with some parts more successful than others. Recommended for readers interested in alternative approaches to the short story. Eye was shortlisted for the .
December 8, 2018
The fourteen stories contained in Marianne Micros鈥� collection, eye, touch on ideas of Greek culture, mythology, superstition and lore as they relate to a modern sensibility. Each entry references 鈥渆yes鈥� in various ways, both literal and metaphorical. Some of the themes that run throughout:
鈥� Predictions and omens of death- The fear it produces despite a strong belief in an afterlife
鈥� Older generation鈥檚 rigid adherence to traditions vs. younger generation鈥檚 reluctant abandonment of them
鈥� Women as the perpetuators of culture through their roles as mother, midwife, herbalist, mourner and storyteller
鈥� Loss of connection to the natural world and the consequences that result
Micros is most successful in those stories that show the personal struggle between faith and a desire to evolve, as in 鈥淧aved鈥� and 鈥淚nvention of Pantyhose: An Autobiography.鈥� These stories also happen to be the most interesting in terms of style and form. Some readers might be put off by the amount of repetition in the collection and the cynical portrayal of religion and its implied hypocrisy. Eye would be particularly appealing to those familiar with or interested in Greek lore and beliefs.
Thanks to Guernica and NetGalley for an ARC of this book in exchange for an objective review.
鈥� Predictions and omens of death- The fear it produces despite a strong belief in an afterlife
鈥� Older generation鈥檚 rigid adherence to traditions vs. younger generation鈥檚 reluctant abandonment of them
鈥� Women as the perpetuators of culture through their roles as mother, midwife, herbalist, mourner and storyteller
鈥� Loss of connection to the natural world and the consequences that result
Micros is most successful in those stories that show the personal struggle between faith and a desire to evolve, as in 鈥淧aved鈥� and 鈥淚nvention of Pantyhose: An Autobiography.鈥� These stories also happen to be the most interesting in terms of style and form. Some readers might be put off by the amount of repetition in the collection and the cynical portrayal of religion and its implied hypocrisy. Eye would be particularly appealing to those familiar with or interested in Greek lore and beliefs.
Thanks to Guernica and NetGalley for an ARC of this book in exchange for an objective review.
November 5, 2019
Marianne Micros, obviously of Greek background herself, has written an intriguing collection of stories that explore the myth, folklore, and magic that once underlay Greek village life. This book was a deserving finalist for the 2019 Governor General's award for fiction. The writing itself is spare and to the point, a style that allows the strangeness of the content to permeate the reader's mind more easily, and allows space for the imagination to soar above the down-to-earth prose. The stories come from Micros' own lifelong fascination with Greek customs and old-world cultures. They are captivating and transforming.
June 22, 2024
These short stories seem simple, but are full of messages about the use of women鈥檚 bodies, spiritualism, and a harkening back to humbler times untouched by capitalism and industrial practices. From ancient Greece to English folktale to modern America, these messages hold a mirror connecting different points of history and different cultural ways of knowing.
My favourite story was One Hundred Eyes, but in general I liked most of these stories. Though slow-paced and with meaning that you have to look for, they offer interesting perspectives of womanhood, youth and old age, violation, cultural pride, the persistance of the land, purity, myth, and spirituality. I liked it!
My favourite story was One Hundred Eyes, but in general I liked most of these stories. Though slow-paced and with meaning that you have to look for, they offer interesting perspectives of womanhood, youth and old age, violation, cultural pride, the persistance of the land, purity, myth, and spirituality. I liked it!
January 23, 2020
This book of short stories was nominated for the 2019 Governor General鈥檚 Award for Fiction so I decided to read it for that reason and because the description stated that myth, folklore, and magic permeated the stories in Marianne Micros' collection. What I discovered explained a lot of the often hard to understand actions and activities of my Greek friends and neighbours as well as adding to what I learned when I took a Classical and Cultural tour of Greece in the early 90s. Micros鈥� stories are well written, interesting and unusual.
September 21, 2018
I'm Canadian born of Greek parents and this book spoke to me. If you're looking for simple, entertaining stories, then Eye isn't for you. It's challenging. It requires the reader to think, to have empathy, to employ their imagination. The writing is sparse but evocative--you can tell the author is a poet first. One criticism: the publisher clearly skimped on proofreading.
February 3, 2022
袧械 蟹邪泄褕谢芯...
March 11, 2022
泻芯褉芯褌泻褨 褨褋褌芯褉褨褩 锌褉芯 斜邪斜芯泻-蟹薪邪褏邪褉芯泻.
褏邪褉芯褕械.
褏邪褉芯褕械.
April 18, 2023
A collection of short stories centered on Greek culture and mythology. They feel very similar to one another thematically; some better developed over others.
April 9, 2025
this book had me questioning whether I was stupid or the book was just nonsense
September 12, 2018
Eye by Marianne Micros is a beautiful, enchanting, true book published by Guernica Editions about Greek folklore, customs, traditions and the so-called old-world. In the past people were more connected with the natural world and they believed in witches, fairies, the enchanted world, and the sphere connected with the unknown often spoused or the devil and creatures associated to him, or fairies.
This book is dedicated to Alice, the mother's author dead at the age of 91. She was an healer and someone in grade to repel the evil eye.
Let's start by here: why this title?
It was tradition, also in our land, to think that someone could curse with his/her eyes someone from the beginning (but people could be cursed also once adults) and so this baby would have always had a special eye, the evil eye; or someone, wishing him all the bad of this world, would have seen modified his/her future; in this case you searched for a healer in grade to see if it was true; they used water and oil and if the answer was positive the healer would have broken this curse with special prayers, herbs and lotions.
In this sense the first tale, involving a kid affected by this dangerous eye will reveal hidden answers able to be known just if the person had that terrible eye.
In other tales we will discover the love of a mother for a magical creature, an intruder of the magical world in their family, while her son was back after 20 years of absence. The answer will be drastic.
Another short tale will focus on a girl transformed in a cow by Hera because jealous of the attention that Zeus, a great play-boy, (with all the respect) dedicated her.
In other tales we will meet difficult realities, painful ones, sometimes, existences surrounded by mystery and superstition but every tale is magical, pure magical, trust me.
Go for it if you love these kind of books and stories. The stories, are narrated with the language and style of a story-teller; plus I love this book so badly because part of these stories are part of our folklore as well.
Highly recommended.
I thank NetGalley and Guernica Editions for the ebook.
Anna Maria Polidori
This book is dedicated to Alice, the mother's author dead at the age of 91. She was an healer and someone in grade to repel the evil eye.
Let's start by here: why this title?
It was tradition, also in our land, to think that someone could curse with his/her eyes someone from the beginning (but people could be cursed also once adults) and so this baby would have always had a special eye, the evil eye; or someone, wishing him all the bad of this world, would have seen modified his/her future; in this case you searched for a healer in grade to see if it was true; they used water and oil and if the answer was positive the healer would have broken this curse with special prayers, herbs and lotions.
In this sense the first tale, involving a kid affected by this dangerous eye will reveal hidden answers able to be known just if the person had that terrible eye.
In other tales we will discover the love of a mother for a magical creature, an intruder of the magical world in their family, while her son was back after 20 years of absence. The answer will be drastic.
Another short tale will focus on a girl transformed in a cow by Hera because jealous of the attention that Zeus, a great play-boy, (with all the respect) dedicated her.
In other tales we will meet difficult realities, painful ones, sometimes, existences surrounded by mystery and superstition but every tale is magical, pure magical, trust me.
Go for it if you love these kind of books and stories. The stories, are narrated with the language and style of a story-teller; plus I love this book so badly because part of these stories are part of our folklore as well.
Highly recommended.
I thank NetGalley and Guernica Editions for the ebook.
Anna Maria Polidori
October 17, 2018
As a long-time English professor at the University of Guelph, Marianne Micros taught folktales among other things, and this influence is clear in her short story collection Eye, recently published by Guernica Editions. Also evident is the influence of her Greek mother, to whom the book is dedicated.
For these are short stories that weave folktales and mythology together with contemporary life. We start with a young boy seeing visions of the future after discovering the head of Orpheus on a beach, and in later stories we meet Ariadne in a labyrinth, Io transformed into a cow, and others.
There are also non-Greek legends and folktales. One of my favourite stories was The Changeling鈥檚 Brother, inspired by an English folktale about changelings鈥攆airy children secretly substituted for human ones. In Micros鈥檚 version, Johnnie comes home from war to discover that his younger brother Willy, whom he last saw 20 years ago, is still a baby. What鈥檚 worse, he is 鈥渘ot the cooing, giggling, chubby brother I remember but some creature with a withered old face and wrinkled body. Pale, then, whining.鈥�
Johnnie鈥檚 mother refuses to accept that anything is wrong with her 20-year-old baby, insisting that 鈥淗e鈥檚 just a weak one, Johnnie. He鈥檚 always been like this.鈥� At first, it seems as if this will be a straightforward confrontation between Johnnie and his mother, until we discover that Johnnie鈥檚 own motives are more complicated, thanks to an experience he had in the woods when he was sixteen, being invited to dance by a fairy woman with long golden hair who has haunted his dreams ever since. The story鈥檚 conclusion involves another substitution, but not the one we might have expected. It鈥檚 a clever twist on an old tale, which is what you could say about the collection in general.
In the dedication for Eye, Micros discloses that her mother was 鈥渁 natural healer, who know how to repel the evil eye.鈥� These healers appear regularly in the stories, either as the main character or as subsidiary ones. They are midwives, healers, nurses, brewers of potions, givers of advice. The modern world is intruding on theirs鈥攖his is a central theme of the title story, Eye鈥攂ut the traditional healers still play an important role. They are guardians of a heritage that, like the legends passed down for thousands of years, serves an important purpose that is not diminished by our recent delusion of scientific omniscience.
By setting most of these stories in the present day, Micros creates a sense of all these traditional legends still existing in our contemporary world whether we admit it or not, whether we notice them or not. I don鈥檛 want to say that she makes them relevant, because I don鈥檛 think that things needs to be recent to be relevant. But reading Eye by Marianne Micros is a satisfying and thought-provoking experience. You get a sense of the melding of different cultures and different eras in a new form.
For these are short stories that weave folktales and mythology together with contemporary life. We start with a young boy seeing visions of the future after discovering the head of Orpheus on a beach, and in later stories we meet Ariadne in a labyrinth, Io transformed into a cow, and others.
There are also non-Greek legends and folktales. One of my favourite stories was The Changeling鈥檚 Brother, inspired by an English folktale about changelings鈥攆airy children secretly substituted for human ones. In Micros鈥檚 version, Johnnie comes home from war to discover that his younger brother Willy, whom he last saw 20 years ago, is still a baby. What鈥檚 worse, he is 鈥渘ot the cooing, giggling, chubby brother I remember but some creature with a withered old face and wrinkled body. Pale, then, whining.鈥�
Johnnie鈥檚 mother refuses to accept that anything is wrong with her 20-year-old baby, insisting that 鈥淗e鈥檚 just a weak one, Johnnie. He鈥檚 always been like this.鈥� At first, it seems as if this will be a straightforward confrontation between Johnnie and his mother, until we discover that Johnnie鈥檚 own motives are more complicated, thanks to an experience he had in the woods when he was sixteen, being invited to dance by a fairy woman with long golden hair who has haunted his dreams ever since. The story鈥檚 conclusion involves another substitution, but not the one we might have expected. It鈥檚 a clever twist on an old tale, which is what you could say about the collection in general.
In the dedication for Eye, Micros discloses that her mother was 鈥渁 natural healer, who know how to repel the evil eye.鈥� These healers appear regularly in the stories, either as the main character or as subsidiary ones. They are midwives, healers, nurses, brewers of potions, givers of advice. The modern world is intruding on theirs鈥攖his is a central theme of the title story, Eye鈥攂ut the traditional healers still play an important role. They are guardians of a heritage that, like the legends passed down for thousands of years, serves an important purpose that is not diminished by our recent delusion of scientific omniscience.
By setting most of these stories in the present day, Micros creates a sense of all these traditional legends still existing in our contemporary world whether we admit it or not, whether we notice them or not. I don鈥檛 want to say that she makes them relevant, because I don鈥檛 think that things needs to be recent to be relevant. But reading Eye by Marianne Micros is a satisfying and thought-provoking experience. You get a sense of the melding of different cultures and different eras in a new form.
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