Jenny Mastoraki. Tales of the Deep. Translated, and with an introduction by Karen Van Dyck. In her The Rehearsal of Misunderstanding: Three Collections by Contemporary Greek Women Poets (Hanover, NH and London, UK: University Press of New England; Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1998): 78-143. [Bilingual edition]. <Poetry> {2.177}
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I. A Brief Description of the Place Where Terrible Things Happened (pp. 78-83).
II. The Sufferings of Love: "The Underground" (pp. 86-87); "Of the Underworld" (pp. 88-89); "The Wedding Song" (pp. 90-91); "The Unfortunate Brides" (pp. 92-93); "The Sufferings of Love" (pp. 94-95); "The Cellars" (pp. 96-97); "The Unfaithful" (pp. 98-99); "The Abduction" (pp. 100-101); "The Loved Ones" (pp. 102-103); "The Garments" (pp. 104-105); "The Divers" (pp. 106-107).
III. Three Songs in Case of Emergency: "A magic spell to protect you from snake bites, evil enemies, and all the healed wounds" (pp. 110-111); "The march the madmen will chant while making their nightly rounds" (pp. 112-113); "A short ode for Uncle Jules so he'll come by at night whistling with his lantern unlit" (pp. 114-115).
IV. Strange Short Tales: "About narratives in general" (pp. 118-119); "Lands besieged and in flames, that never existed" (pp. 120-121); "Depiction of a rare custom: vivid colors and impassive faces, as seen in still water" (pp. 122-123); "The peddlers' ancient trade" (pp. 124-125) "What the eyewitnesses said, all of them superstitious and compulsive liars" (pp. 126-127); "Fragments from a brief chronicle: a great persecution, year unknown, but more important, in a beautiful city, conspicuous, with scant hiding places" (pp. 128-129); "Treatise written by an unknown hand" (pp. 130-131); "A band of pirates, at last in a city by the sea, after years of battle" (pp. 132-133); "Casualty list, and what the empirical doctor added" (pp. 134-135); "And what happened to the man who was murdered" (pp. 136-137); "About those who really held out and did not speak" (pp. 138-139).
V. What That Missive Said (pp. 140-143).
Ιστορίες για τα βαθιά (Αθήνα: Κέδρος, 1983)