Nikos Engonopoulos (1907-1985) was one of the most prominent
representatives of Greek Surrealist poetry and painting. Closely
associated with Andreas Embeirikos, the "patriarch" of Surrealism
in Greece, and with Nicolas Calas, an influential figure of the
European and American avant-garde, Engonopoulos developed highly
experimental pictorial and poetic aesthetics. In both his paintings
and poems, he engaged in a critical, often ironic dialogue with
Greek history and cultural traditions and their ideological
appropriations in established cultural and political discourses.
Engonopoulos was arguably the keenest advocate of Surrealist black
humor and irony in Greece. His overall approach to the Greek past,
informed as it was by the socio-aesthetic principles of French
Surrealism, constitutes one of the most ingenious and provocative
cases of artistic mythogenesis in the European avant-garde. This
volume offers a collection of his most representative poems,
including his long poem Bolivar, which was written in the winter of
1942-1943 and soon acquired the status of an emblematic act of
resistance against the Nazis and their allies (Italians and
Bulgarians), who had occupied Greece in 1941.
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