Oedipus is Innocent - Couverture souple

Calas, Nicolas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1916139272 ISBN 13 : 9781916139275

Editeur : Smokestack Books, 2020

Synopsis

Nicolas Calas (1907-1988) was a truly international poet, critic and polemicist. He wrote in Greek, French and English. He designed a chess-set with André Breton, wrote an anthropological study with Margaret Mead, appeared in a film by Hans Richter and first translated Louis Aragon, Benjamin Péret and TS Eliot into Greek. One of the early Greek Surrealists, he tried to combine avant-garde poetics with Trotskyism, Freudianism and Marxism, first in Athens, then in Paris and New York.
Oedipus is Innocent is the first collection of Calas poems in English translation, a selection of his best work from 1933-82. From Futurist and Surrealist experiment to harsh satire, revolutionary fervour to dispassionate mockery, Calas work employed shock, paradox, surprise, alienation and transformation to lay bare what he regarded as the falseness of Western society and the dishonesty of capitalist morality.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lena Hoff has a PhD in Modern Greek Studies from the University of Birmingham and lives in Athens. She is the archivist of the Nicolas and Elena Calas Archive at the Nordic Library at Athens and has published several studies on Nicolas Calas, including Nicolas Calas and the Challenge of Surrealism (2014).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Smokestack Books
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1916139272
• ISBN 13: 9781916139275
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
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