Donnerstag, 1. Oktober 2009

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01.10.2009 - Interpretation of dali48  

In 1941 Seferis married Marika Zannou - who had 2 young daughters. They had met on vacation in 1936. At that time Selferis had ended his relationship with Loukia Fotopoulou - a highly educated woman who lived apart from her husband - she died in 1939...

"Wherever I travel - Greece wounds me," he once said...

During the Cyprus crisis in the 1950s - he contributed to the negotiations that resulted in the London Agreement (1959), making Cyprus independent of British rule...

Seferis's years as a diplomat in several countries - made him a modern Odysseus...

Seferis also expressed his fears about the triumph of commercial culture - and once told his dream in which the Parthenon was auctioned off to become an advertisement - "every column a gigantic tube of toothpaste"...

Seferis died on September 20, 1971 - 1000s of young people escorted his coffin, to honour him as a spokesman for freedom - His widow cut off her hair and flung it into his grave - "I am fully conscious that we do not live in a time - when the poet can believe that fame awaits him, but in a time of oblivion. This doesn't make me less dedicated to my beliefs - I am more so"... (G. Seferis, P.A.C.)


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