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16.04.2008 - Interpretation by dali48
It is the word "heaven," - it is the word "sea" - it's the word "sun" - it's the word "freedom" - I respectfully put it to you... (Odysseus Elytis, Banquet Speech 1979)
Giorgos Seferis had picked himself the flowers on the... - that mountain, a few miles east of Athens, where... - had her miraculous... - and where hyacinths grew in a wild profusion since ancient... - so that the whole mountain exuded a smell of...
"I consider surrealism" - he says on one side, "as the last available... - in a dying... - dying at least in ..."
Usually we see Greece's treasure of myths dwindled and reshaped as a contemporary Western European... - We have a Antigone à la Racine, an... - à la Anouilh, and we will have more of... - Elytis detests such a treatment as a rationalising and potted planting of...
Greek as the language, he says, is opposed to a pessimistic description of... - and for "la poésie maudite" - there are no... - For West Europeans all mysticism is associated with darkness and... - but for the Greeks light is the great... - and each radiant day a repeated... - The sun, the sea and... - are the basic and cleaning... (Odysseus Elytis, Presentation Speech 1979)
Odysseus Elytis was regarded as a major exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world. In 1979 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1979 · Odysseus Elytis ... Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1979. (Translation) .... It becomes a lofty speech. And this way of being ...
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