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In The Name Of Luminosity And Transparency

In The Name Of Luminosity And Transparency

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In The Name Of Luminosity And Transparency
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The poetry of Odysseus Elytis owes as much to the ancients and Byzantium, as to the surrealists of the 1930s and the architecture of the Cyclades, bringing romantic modernism and structural experimentation to Greece. Collected here are the two speeches Elytis gave on his acceptance of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Literature, which are still strikingly relevant today. He addresses a hypertrophic and atrophic Europe in moral chaos, with as many coexisting values as languages-and to this he offers the "common language" that is found in poetry, in art, and in their base materials of sense, aesthetic, intuition. Ultimately, his is a powerful ode to beauty amid utilitarianism, and the need for poetry as "the art of approaching that which surpasses us" and "puts us at the threshold of the deepest truth".
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AuthorOdysseus Elytis
FormatPaperback
ISBN-139786185048518
Item Height0.9
Item Length13
Item Width20.6
PublisherGazelle Book Services

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