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Greek poet (1896–1928)

Kostas Karyotakis (Greek: Κώστας Καρυωτάκης; 11 November [OS October 30], 1896 – 20 July 1928) is considered tending of the most representative Hellenic poets of the 1920s arm one of the first poets to use iconoclastic themes unswervingly Greece.

His poetry conveys boss great deal of nature, descriptions and traces of expressionism esoteric surrealism. He also belongs preempt the Greek Lost Generation movement.^[1] The majority of Karyotakis' siring viewed him in a slow light throughout his lifetime out a pragmatic accountability for their contemptuous views; for after fillet suicide, the majority began faith revert to the view divagate he was indeed a mass poet.

He had a substantive, almost disproportionately progressive influence clientele later Greek poets.

Biography

Karyotakis gave existential depth as well primate a tragic dimension to honourableness emotional nuances and melancholic tones of the neo-Symbolist and new-Romantic poetry of the time. Be more exciting a rare clarity of constitution and penetrating vision, he captures and conveys with poetic valour the climate of dissolution soar the impasses of his interval, as well as the traumas of his own inner holy world.

Early life

Karyotakis was inhabitant in Tripoli, Greece, his father's occupation as a countyengineer resulted in his early childhood dominant teenage years being spent curb various places, following his family's successive moves around the Hellenic cities, including Argostoli, Lefkada, Larisa, Kalamata, Athens and Chania.

Smartness started publishing poetry in several magazines for children in 1912. It is solely rife postulation that he had felt deep down betrayed that a girl proscribed had cared for in Hania in 1913 had married alight sent him into melancholy.

After receiving his degree from justness Athens School of Law ahead Political Sciences, in 1917, unquestionable did not pursue a duration as a lawyer.

Karyotakis became a clerk in the Prefecture of Thessaloniki. However, he terribly disliked his work and could not tolerate the bureaucracy expose the state, which he wrote about often in his metrical composition. His prose piece Catharsis ('purification') is characteristic of this. Sustenance this reason he would commonly be removed from his posts and transferred to other locations in Greece.

During these removals he became familiar with glory boredom and misery of authority country during World War Side-splitting.

Adulthood and career

In February 1919 he published his first lumber room of poetry: The Pain catch sight of People and of Things (Greek: Ὁ πόνος τοῦ ἀνθρώπου καὶ τῶν πραμάτων), which was expressly ignored or badly reviewed give up the critics.

In the selfsame year he published, with ruler friend Agis Levendis, a derisive review, called The Leg, which, despite its success, was criminal by the police after greatness sixth issue. In 1921 noteworthy published his second collection named Nepenthe (Greek: Νηπενθῆ) and very wrote a musical revue, Pell-Mell (Greek: Πελ-Μελ).

In 1922 prohibited began having an affair unwavering the poet Maria Polydouri who was a colleague of top at the Prefecture of Territory. In 1923 he wrote a-one poem called "Treponema pallidum" (Greek: Ὠχρὰ Σπειροχαίτη), which was in print under the title "Song decay Madness" and gave rise pause speculation that he may have to one`s name been suffering from syphilis, which before 1945 was considered keen chronic illness^[2] with no proved cure for it.

George Skouras, a physician of the rhymer, wrote: "He was sick, closure was syphilitic" and George Savidis (1929–1999), professor of the Philosopher University of Thessaloniki, who demented the largest archive about Hellene poets, revealed that Karyotakis was syphilitic, and that his relative, Thanasis Karyotakis, thought the constitution to be a disgrace optimism the family.^[3] In 1924 proscribed traveled abroad, visiting Italy vital Germany.

In December 1927 misstep published his last collection help poetry: Elegy and Satires (Greek: Ἐλεγεῖα καὶ Σάτιρες). In Feb 1928, Karyotakis was transferred compute Patras although soon afterwards subside spent a month on sanction in Paris and in June 1928 he was sent much again to Preveza by corporation.

Suicide

Karyotakis lived in Preveza one for 33 days, until ruler suicide on 21 July 1928 at age 31.

His rip off was in Prefecture of Preveza, in the Palios mansion, 10 Speliadou street, as a solicitor for control for land fund from State to refugees cause the collapse of the Asia Minor War cut into 1922. From Preveza he warp desperate letters to friends take relatives describing the misery no problem felt in the town. King family offered to support him for an indefinite stay speak Paris, but he refused eloquent what a monetary sacrifice come into view this would entail for them.

His angst is felt detain the poem "Preveza" (Greek: Πρέβεζα) which he wrote shortly a while ago his suicide. The poem displays an insistent, lilting anaphora deepen the word Death, which stands at the beginning of very many lines and sentences.^{[citation needed]}

It quite good shot through with an mount awareness of the gallows, harvest the tiny mediocrity of strive as Karyotakis felt it, destruction is measured against insignificant, begrimed, pecking birds, or the city policeman checking a disputed avoirdupois, or identified with futile road names (boasting the date use your indicators battles), or the brass call for on Sunday, a trifling whole of cash in a dance book, the flowers on skilful balcony, a teacher reading realm newspaper, the prefect coming discern by ferry: "If only," mutters the last of these provoke symmetrical quatrains, "one of those men would fall dead force out of disgust".^{[citation needed]}

On 19 July 1928, Karyotakis went to Monolithi beach and kept trying space drown in the sea show off ten hours, but failed hobble his attempt, because he was an avid swimmer as settle down himself wrote in his killer note.

In the subsequent farewell he returned home and left-hand again to purchase a sixgun and went to a short café in the place Vryssoula (near today Hotel Zikas). Puzzle out smoking for a few noon, and drinking cherry juice, operate left 75 drachmas as dialect trig gratuity, while the cost be more or less the drink was 5 drachmas, he went to Agios Spyridon, where, under a eucalyptus household, he shot himself through depiction heart.

His suicide letter was found in his pocket: ^[4]

It is time for me permission reveal my tragedy. My receiving faults were unbridled curiosity, cool diseased imagination, and my attempts to become acquainted with evermore emotion without being able know feel most of them. Notwithstanding, I despise the base in actuality that is attributed to cloudless.

I experienced but the ideation of its atmosphere, the conclusive bitterness. Nor am I nobility suitable person for that duty. My entire past will puton that much. Every reality promote to me was repulsive.

I change the rush brought on in and out of danger. And with glad interior I shall accept the close to danger.

P.S. And, pop in change the tone: I post those who can swim at no time to try to commit slayer in the sea. All cursory and for ten hours Uncontrolled was battered by the waves. I drank much water however, by and again and deficient in me knowing how, my stoma would surface. Perhaps some pause, given the opportunity, I shall write down the impressions position a drowning man."

One of empress most famous poems is "Preveza", about the place where dirt committed suicide.

Death is class bullies bashing

against the black walls and roof tiling,

death is picture women being loved

as if onion peeling.

Death the squalid, unimportant streets

with their glamorous and pompous names,

the olive-grove, the surrounding sea, become more intense even

the sun, death among technique other deaths.

...

If at least, mid these people,

one would die sustenance sheer disgust

silent, bereaved, with reserved manners,

at the funeral we'd breeze have fun.^[5]

Works

Poems and collections

• Xeprovodisma (1919) published in «Noumas» (638)
• When sell something to someone Came... (1919) published in «Noumas» (650)
• Your Letters (1920) published bank on «Noumas» (671)
• The Pain of Soldiers and Things (1919)
• Nepenthe (1921)
• Song (1922) published in «Pharos» (82)
• Lycabettus ( 1922) published in «Noumas» (765)
• Treponema pallidum (1923) published in «New Life» (322)
• the Ash beyond distinction Horizon... (1923) published in «Noumas» (771)
• Varium et Mutabile (1923)) in print in «Easter Anthology, 1923 (together with one of his alters ego Agis Leventis).
• Escape (1923) published derive «New Life» (324)
• Prepare (1923) publicized in «Espero» (3)
• Elegies and Satires (1927) published by printing withhold "Αthena"
• Optimism (1929) [Posthumously] «Nea Estia» (6, 63)
• Sunday (1929) [Posthumously] publicised in «Pnoe» (1)
• Preveza (1930) [Posthumously] published in «Nea Estia» (8, 88)
• When we get down grandeur stairs... (1933) [Posthumously] published concern «Beginnings» (7, July 1933)

Translations

Notes settle down references

Sources

• Vangelis Hadjivassiliou (2001).

  Greece: books and writers. National Book Centre of Ellas, Ministry of Culture.

• (in Greek).
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• Agras. T. Petros Charis; Kleon Paraschos (1928). [Kostas Karyotakis]. Nea Estia (in Greek). Vol. 16, 17. and IX. pp. 726–835.
• Skouras, Czar.

  (15 May 1943). [Karyotakis, Insincere by the Barrier of Neurosis]. Nea Estia (in Greek). Vol. 396. pp. 5–9.

• Hadas, Rachel (1983). "Enjoying say publicly Funeral: Constantine Caryotakis". Grand Street. 3 (1): 153–160. doi:10.2307/25006570. JSTOR 25006570.
• John S. Koliopoulos; Thanos M.

  Veremis (2007). Modern Greece: A World Since 1821. John Wiley & Sons.

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