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Yannis Ritsos (1909–1990)

Teoksen Selected Poems 1938-1988 tekijä

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Ritsos, imprisoned by the Greek dictatorship, has repeatedly suffered from his strong revolutionary sentiments: "Haunted by death, driven at times to the edge of madness and suicide, Ritsos throughout his life has been upheld by his obstinate faith in poetry as redemption, and in the revolutionary näytä lisää ideal" (Friar, Modern Greek Poetry). Initially a follower of the demotic tradition, Ritsos went through a phase of militant, doctrinaire poetry. Eventually, however, his work became free of anger and recrimination. In long poems, such as Romiosyne (1947), he writes compassionately, celebrating life in an unadorned style. He has produced dozens of volumes of poems, drama, and translations. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän

Tekijän teokset

Selected Poems 1938-1988 (1989) 53 kappaletta
Diaries of Exile (2013) 44 kappaletta
The Fourth Dimension (1977) 39 kappaletta
Yannis Ritsos (1991) 32 kappaletta
Selected Poems (1974) 27 kappaletta
Ritsos in Parentheses (1979) 19 kappaletta
The moonlight sonata (1975) 19 kappaletta
Ρωμιοσύνη (1991) 17 kappaletta
Ποιήματα 15 kappaletta
Gestures and Other (1971) 14 kappaletta
Ρωμιοσύνη (1984) 12 kappaletta
La signora delle vigne (1980) 11 kappaletta
Monochords (1998) 11 kappaletta
Epitaphios (2003) 10 kappaletta
Erotica (1982) 7 kappaletta
Poems: Selected Books (2010) 6 kappaletta
Fedra (2007) 6 kappaletta
Subterranean Horses (1980) 5 kappaletta
Twelve poems about Cavafy (2010) 5 kappaletta
Scripture of the Blind (1979) 4 kappaletta
Agamenón (2018) 4 kappaletta
Oreste (2015) 4 kappaletta
Il funambolo e la luna (1984) 4 kappaletta
Pierres Répétitions Grilles (2004) 4 kappaletta
Le vecchie e il mare (2009) 4 kappaletta
Sürgün Günlükleri (2021) 3 kappaletta
Quarta dimensione (2013) 3 kappaletta
Els Àtrides. (2014) 3 kappaletta
Εαρινή Συμφωνία (2005) 3 kappaletta
Romiosini en andere gedichten (2005) 3 kappaletta
Gedichte (1991) 3 kappaletta
Poesie : Gesti (1971) 3 kappaletta
Gang en trap (1980) 3 kappaletta
Antologia 2 kappaletta
Chronicle of Exile (1977) 2 kappaletta
Ismene (2012) 2 kappaletta
Ἡ Ἑλένη 2 kappaletta
Molto tardi nella notte (2020) 2 kappaletta
A.B.C. : og andre utvalgte dikt (1991) 2 kappaletta
CASA MUERTA, LA (2009) 2 kappaletta
Ayax (2008) 2 kappaletta
Helena (2022) 2 kappaletta
Crisótemis (Acantilado) (2011) 2 kappaletta
The Wavering Scales (2006) 2 kappaletta
3 X 111 Tristichs (1990) 2 kappaletta
Diários do Exílio (2022) 2 kappaletta
Επινίκια 1 kappale
Επιτομή 1 kappale
Meletemata 1 kappale
Αγρύπνια 1 kappale
Χάρτινα 1 kappale
Astro mattutino 1 kappale
Quattro poemetti 1 kappale
Τρακτέρ 1 kappale
Ritsos 1 kappale
Lotteria: 1977 1 kappale
Ölü Ev 1 kappale
Prima dell'uomo 1 kappale
Trojan women. -- 1 kappale
Il loggione (2018) 1 kappale
Persefone 1 kappale
Balcon (2017) 1 kappale
Dikt i utvalg (1972) 1 kappale
Η Ελένη 1 kappale
Erotika : Gedichte. (1983) 1 kappale
Erotika 1 kappale
Então? 1 kappale

Associated Works

Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (2003) — Avustaja — 766 kappaletta
180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (2005) — Avustaja — 362 kappaletta
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993) — Avustaja — 333 kappaletta
The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry (1996) — Avustaja — 305 kappaletta
Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (1684) — Avustaja — 68 kappaletta
For Neruda, For Chile: An International Anthology (1975) — Avustaja — 23 kappaletta
Antaeus No. 15, Autumn 1974 - Special Translation Issue (1974) — Avustaja — 2 kappaletta

Merkitty avainsanalla

Yleistieto

Virallinen nimi
Ρίτσος, Γιάννης
Syntymäaika
1909-05-10
Kuolinaika
1990-11-11
Sukupuoli
male
Kansalaisuus
Greece
Syntymäpaikka
Monemvasia, Greece
Kuolinpaikka
Athens, Greece
Koulutus
Athens Law School
Ammatit
poet
playwright
essayist
Organisaatiot
Greek Communist Party
Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
Lenin Peace Prize (1975)

Jäseniä

Kirja-arvosteluja

***who sucked me in***
Jen of Remembered Reads on YouTube in their Recent Reads: Nonfiction & Poetry published on do 8 juli 2021

It's a collection of poetry over a big amount of time and she pointed out how it changed. Which sounds fascinating. Also I didn't know Greece had a civil war
 
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Jonesy_now | 1 muu arvostelu | Sep 24, 2021 |
> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Ritsos-Les-vieilles-femmes-et-la-mer/828741

> Des larmes sur le visage des vieilles femmes et aussi dans le coeur du lecteur, la magie grecque qui agit. Très belle musique pour dire ce texte.
Danieljean (Babelio)… (lisätietoja)
 
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Joop-le-philosophe | Feb 13, 2021 |
Poeta militante, portavoce della coscienza greca, del coraggio e della fierezza del popolo greco, Ritsos rende omaggio all'uomo e alla libertà, alla sua terra di cui canta la solarità, l'odore salmastro sulle coste, l'aroma del basilico e delle erbe selvatiche, il frinire delle cicale.
La grecità si fa elegia, sublime.
 
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cometahalley | Dec 8, 2013 |
Tämä arvostelu kirjoitettiin LibraryThingin Varhaisia arvostelijoita varten.
Diaries in Exile is actually three diaries, the first two written from The Kontopouli camp on the island of Limnos. Kontopouli was a makeshift detainment centre, originally used by the Germans as warehouses during the occupation of Greece. They housed around a 150 men, many of whom would be transferred to Yaros & Makronosis, where life would be a lot harsher. By the time Ritsos began the second diary he had been detained for over a year, having faced beatings and forced labour whilst living on meagre rations, this would impact on his writing, which became sparser, focusing on the relentless sameness of his existence. The last Diary was written on Makronosis, where he had been sent in 1949 - a desert island, entirely cut off from the mainland and inhabited only by guards and prisoners. This wasn't just a detention facility it was a re-education centre, which at it's height held around 20,000 men, women & children, its sole aim was to transform the prisoners into loyal citizens, having to sign "Declarations of repentance". On Makronosis prisoners were crammed into already overcrowded tents and were made to carry stones from one spot to another without reason for hours on end, regardless of the time of day or year, without water or footwear and letters were reduced to postcards being highly censored. On Makronosis prisoners were routinely tortured, driven mad and executed.

The poetry in these diaries weren't the only poems Yannis Ritsos wrote whilst in exile, regardless of the harshness of his detention, he constantly wrote. In fact even under the unremitting hell of Makronosis, he found a means to write on whatever scrap of paper he could lay his hands on, including the linings of cigarette packs, which he then hid or buried in bottles in the ground. What stands the Diaries apart from his other works are their nature, part poem, part diary, part letter to the outside world, all normal correspondence from camp were never wholly private, having to pass through the censors scrutiny. With the poetry Ritsos could write as he pleased, although he could be never certain if they'd ever be seen by others.

This would remain so for quite a while as his books were banned until 1954 and in 1967, when army colonels staged a coup and took over Greece, he was again deported, then held under house arrest until 1970. His works were again banned - despite being banned from publication until 1972, he continued to write and paint. He died in Athens on the 1th November 1990. During his lifetime, he published 117 collections of poetry, novels and theatre plays and is said to be Greece's most widely translated poet. He was unsuccessfully proposed nine times for the Nobel Prize for Literature and in 1975 was awarded the Lenin Prize for Peace.

Nowadays Yannis Ritsos's name is amongst the five great Greek poets of the twentieth century, sharing that title with Konstantinos Kavafis, Kostas Kariotakis, Giorgos Seferis, and Odysseus Elytis, and this volume translated by Karen Emmerich and Edmund Keeley and published by Archipelago books justifies his inclusion, and as Peter Levi said:

"in their directness and with their sense of anguish, are moving, and testify to the courage of at least one human soul in conditions which few of us have faced or would have triumphed over had we faced them,"
… (lisätietoja)
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