Elytes, Odysseas, 1911–1996-Criticism and interpretation. Includes bibliographical references and index. Mediterranean modernisms: the poetic metaphysics of Odysseus Elytis / by Marinos Pourgouris. Title 889.1’32–dc22 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pourgouris, Marinos. Modernism (Literature) – Mediterranean Region. Elytes, Odysseas, 1911–1996 – Criticism and interpretation. Mediterranean modernisms: the poetic metaphysics of Odysseus Elytis. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Ashgate Publishing Company Wey Court East Suite 420 Union Road 101 Cherry Street Farnham Burlington Surrey, GU9 7PT VT 05401-4405 England USA British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Pourgouris, Marinos. Marinos Pourgouris has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. © Marinos Pourgouris 2011 All rights reserved. Marinos Pourgouris University of Cyprus, Cyprus Mediterranean Modernisms The Poetic Metaphysics of Odysseus Elytis New Brunswick New York Providence Χαιρέτωσαν! And I find I keep asking the same question, because of the history: where do I stand in relation to these writers: in another country or in this valuing city? Raymond Williams, The Country and the City Informed by extensive research in the United States and Europe, Pourgouris’s study makes a compelling contribution to the comparative study of Greek modernism, the Mediterranean, and the work of Odysseus Elytis. Beginning with an examination of Greek Modernism, Pourgouris’s study places Elytis in conversation with Albert Camus analyzes the influence of Charles Baudelaire, Gaston Bachelard, and Sigmund Freud on Elytis’s theory of analogies traces the symbol of the sun in Elytis’s poetry by way of the philosophies of Heraclitus and Plotinus examines the influence of Le Corbusier on Elytis’s theory of architectural poetics and takes up the subject of Elytis’s application of his theory of Solar Metaphysics to poetic form in the context of works by Freud, C.G. At the same time, Pourgouris puts forward a redefinition of European Modernism that makes the Mediterranean, and Greece in particular, the discursive contact zone and incorporates neglected elements such as national identity and geography. Engaging with the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Odysseus Elytis within the framework of international modernism, Marinos Pourgouris places the poet’s work in the context of other modernist and surrealist writers in Europe.
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