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Selected Poems (Hardcover)
Nikos Engonopoulos; Translated by David Connolly
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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.
Derided and maligned more than any other Greek artist for his
innovative and, at the time, often incomprehensible modernist
experiments, Engonopoulos is today justifiably regarded as one of
the most original artists of his generation and as a unique figure
in Greek letters. Though he considered himself first a painter and
only afterwards a poet, his poetry is widely read and admired, with
many critical studies of his work appearing in recent years and
with a growing recognition of its value and of its creative use of
the Greek tradition and language. He enriched post-war Greek poetry
with a host of poetic expressions, figures and images that have
come to constitute part of the Greek poetic consciousness. In both
his painting and poetry, he created a peculiarly Greek surrealism,
a blending of the Dionysian and Apollonian, though always in
keeping with basic surrealist tenets and, as such, his work is an
important and original contribution not only to Modern Greek art
and poetry but also to modern art and poetry worldwide.
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