To "Dinner wtih Persephone" den to exw diavasei, alla ap' oti thymamai oi kritikes apo Ellhnes akadhmaikous kai se Ellhnoamerikanika periodika htan para poly arnhtikh. An thymamai kala legane oti anhkei se mia kainourgia kathgoria taxidiotikwn vivliwn pou ola ta vlepoun arnhtika se mia xwra. Sigoura prepei na vlepoume ta arnhtika stoixeia mias xwras, alla as prosexoume ligo kai ta thetika.
Nomizo oti to vivlio "H Mousiki Paradosi stin Kerkyra" einai en aexisou kalo vivlio to opoio parathetei para polla istorika stoixeia!!! Akoma kalitera Nomizo einai to "H Kerkyra kai H Istoria tis mesa apo tous Dromous kai ta Kantounia ths" . kai ta dio einai tou sigxoremenou k. Gianni Tsantaridi. Ta exo diavasei kai ta dio kai oxi mono epeidi eimai mousikos!!!
To vivlio tis Laskari einai pragmatika poly kalo. Afto omws pou to kanei pragmatika 3exwristo gia mena einai i laografiki perigrafi tis ka8imerinis zwis mesa stin poli tis Kerkyras kata tous perasmenous aiwnes ('700 & '800 kyriws).
I megali pleiopsifia twn laografwn mas eixe asxoli8ei kyriws me ti zwi tou xwriou kai oxi tis "xwras" s' aftous tous aiwnes opws allwste kai me tin kouzina aftwn twn periodwn. H perigrafi tou typou pou gyrizei sti xwra me mia kapa nitserada kai ena kanati kai fwnazei: Chi vol' cagar, con la gazzetta o senza la gazzetta" einai endiktiki!
Ase pou se vazei kai se peirasmo na dokimaseis kai tis syntages... Egw ekatsa kai eftia3a tsitsimpira!
Ena allo poly kalo vivlio gia tin Kerkyra, to opoio omws den 3erw an kykloforei pia einai to "Agapi mou Kerkyra" tou Palaiologou. Enai mia seira apo ta3idiwtika ar8ra pou egrapse o Palaiologos prin kai meta ton polemo kai deixnei pws mporei enas topos na ginei antikeimeno agapis erwtikis...
Oi pio polles apo tis syntages to vivlioy "Korfiatikes Geyseis tsi Kalis kai tsi Nonas" pantos, (epidi tychenei na ta eho kai ta 2) einai apo to vivlio tis Laskari.
Oson afora tin Kerkyraki dialekto, o monos poy ehei kataferei na apotyposei sto harti ti zontania tis einai o Ntinos Theotokis. Prohtes diavasa tis "2 agapes" kai pragmatika eiha poly kairo na efharistitho etsi vivlio (esto nouvela)
eho ena sti syllogi mou kai einai tou Peter Bull, ithopoiou kai syggrafea me titlo : "It isn't all Greek to me" kai anaferetai sti shesi pou aneptyxe me tin Kerkyra prin apo 30 peripou hronia, me pollous Kerkyraious kai me ena spiti pou ekane stous Paxous... mou to edose enas apo aytous tous Kerkyraious gia tous opoious grafei o Bull kai to diavasa to kalokairi pou perase , ehei polla endaferonta stoiheia gia tin Kerkyra, ( grafei akoma kai gia ton Solari kai ti Loutsinta !!) ton haraktira ton sympatrioton mas kai se kanei na nostalgeis ekeini tin epohi, pou ola itan pio athoa, pio ntompra kai pio romantika
Μεσ’ στο γιαλό της Κέρκυρας μαυρ’είμαι πέτρα κι έρμη κι είναι δικό σου δόξασμα, δικός σου πλούτος είναι, πνεύμα καλό, που σ’αρεσε φωνή να μου χαρίσεις, κι αν με πατήσεις, βασιλιά, βγαίνω βαγί και δάφνη Διον. Σολωμός