Essays

Καρναβα(ρνα)λικα

Author: Vasilis Alexiou

The book contains six texts that were written and published in the last two decades. For the current edition, they have been revisited to be supplemented, revised in some points, or to remove certain...

The book contains six texts that were written and published in the last two decades. For the current edition, they have been revisited to be supplemented, revised in some points, or to remove certain logical overlaps.

The primary goal of the collected texts is, as suggested by the ambiguous title of the book, to highlight – in light of the Bakhtinian...

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  • Number of pages Number of pages 232
  • Cover Cover Soft
  • Year of publication Year of publication 2023
  • Publisher Publisher Kedros
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The book contains six texts that were written and published in the last two decades. For the current edition, they have been revisited to be supplemented, revised in some points, or to remove certain logical overlaps.

The primary goal of the collected texts is, as suggested by the ambiguous title of the book, to highlight – in light of the Bakhtinian perspective – the carnivalesque view of the world that emerges from the entirety of Varnalis’s creation. Of course, the carnivalesque element is not singular in Varnalis's writing but is accompanied by a deep and tender lyricism, struggle, and anxiety for the poetic form and the social conditions of the existence of poetry, and a poetic reflection that, as Byron Leonardis noted, "literally wanders over the waters of experiential experience and not above and detached from it."

Ultimately, the goal of the book is to grasp the central objectives of Varnalis's poetics. This objective is excellently articulated in this small excerpt from the text by Eftychis Bitsakis, who introduces the edition: "This was Varnalis's work: A combative humanism that, through the dialectical connection of satire and lyricism, of 'the cavalina and the rose-petal', as Palamas wrote, combined in its expression – in accordance with the leges artis – the thinking with the suffering and struggling humanity or, otherwise, as he would put it in two of his lines: Within my own speech, all of humanity suffers."

The book is dedicated to the memory of Giannis Dalla.

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Author
Vasilis Alexiou
Publisher
Kedros
Language
Greek
Subtitle
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Cover
Soft
Number of Pages
232
Release Date
20/12/2023
Publication Date
2023
Dimensions
14x21 cm
ISBN-13
9789600454130

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