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Andreas Embirikos

Born

in Brăila, Romania

September 02, 1901

Died

August 03, 1975

Genre

Poetry

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Andreas Embirikos was a Greek surrealist poet and the first Greek psychoanalyst.

Embirikos came from a wealthy family as his father was an important ship-owner. He was born in Brăila, Romania, but his family soon moved to Ermoupolis in Syros, Greece. When Embirikos was only seven years old they moved to Athens. While he was still a teenager his parents divorced; he started studying at the Faculty of Philosophy of the National and Capodistrian University of Athens, but he decided to move to Lausanne to stay with his mother.

The following years Embirikos studied a variety of subjects both in France and in the United Kingdom where he studies at King's College London.

However it was in Paris where he decided to study psychanalysis together with Re Andreas Embirikos was a Greek surrealist poet and the first Greek psychoanalyst.

Embirikos came from a wealthy family as his father was an important ship-owner. He was born in Brăila, Romania, but his family soon moved to Ermoupolis in Syros, Greece. When Embirikos was only seven years old they moved to Athens. While he was still a teenager his parents divorced; he started studying at the Faculty of Philosophy of the National and Capodistrian University of Athens, but he decided to move to Lausanne to stay with his mother.

The following years Embirikos studied a variety of subjects both in France and in the United Kingdom where he studies at King's College London.

However it was in Paris where he decided to study psychanalysis together with René Laforgue.

His poetry can be defined by two major tendencies. On the one hand, he was one of the major representatives of surrealism in Greece. His first poetic collection, "Ipsikaminos", was a heretic book, characterized by the lack of the punctuation and the peculiarity of the language. As the poet himself admitted it was precisely the originality and extravagance of his work that contributed to his relative commercial success.

On the other hand, together with Yorgos Seferis, Embirikos was the most important representative of the generation of the 1930s. He contributed greatly to the introduction of modernism in Greek letters and he helped change once and for all the poetic atmosphere of Greece.

Arguably, the most significant and influential work by Embirikos is "Megas Anatolikos". The poet dedicated many years of work to this particularly long novel, that consists of more than one hundred chapters. In this work, Embirikos narrates the first trip of the ocean liner Great Eastern (Μέγας Ἀνατολικός) from England to America. Embirikos describes the Great Eastern as a hedonic vessel, where the multitude of the passengers enjoy love without and beyond limits. During the ten-day trip (an allusion to the Decameron) they discover a new form of happiness and innocence. For this work, Odysseas Elytis called Embirikos "a visionary and a prophet".

Embirikos also wrote articles of literary criticism; at least two of them are worth-mentioning. The first is "The hidden necrophilia in the works of Edgar Allan Poe"; the second, "Nikos Engonopoulos or the miracle of Elbassan and Bosphorus". ...more

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	Ο Μέγας Ανατολικός: Τόμος Α' (Ο Μέγας Ανατολικός, #1) by Andreas Embirikos, Ανδρέας Εμπειρίκος, Γιώργης Γιατρομανωλάκης (Editor) 3.74 avg rating — 250 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Υψικάμινος by Andreas Embirikos, Ανδρέας Εμπειρίκος 4.17 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 1935 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ενδοχώρα by Andreas Embirikos, Ανδρέας Εμπειρίκος 4.22 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 1945 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ο Μέγας Ανατολικός: Ανθολόγιον by Andreas Embirikos, Ανδρέας Εμπειρίκος, Γιώργης Γιατρομανωλάκης (Editor) 3.94 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Αργώ ή Πλους αεροστάτου by Andreas Embirikos, Ανδρέας Εμπειρίκος 4.12 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1980	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ο Μέγας Ανατολικός: Τόμος B' (Ο Μέγας Ανατολικός, #2) by Andreas Embirikos, Ανδρέας Εμπειρίκος, Γιώργης Γιατρομανωλάκης (Editor) 3.75 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1990	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Γραπτά ή προσωπική μυθολογία by Andreas Embirikos, Ανδρέας Εμπειρίκος 3.97 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1974 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Περί Σουρρεαλισμού - Η διάλεξη του 1935 by Andreas Embirikos, Ανδρέας Εμπειρίκος 4.35 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Τα χαϊμαλιά του έρωτα και των αρμάτων: Αργώ ή πλους αεροστάτου, Ζεμφύρα ή το μυστικόν της Πασιφάης, Βεατρίκη ή ο έρωτας του Buffalo Bill by Andreas Embirikos, Ανδρέας Εμπειρίκος, Γιώργης Γιατρομανωλάκης (Editor & Introduction) 4.34 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ο Μέγας Ανατολικός: Τόμος Z' (Ο Μέγας Ανατολικός #7) by Andreas Embirikos, Ανδρέας Εμπειρίκος, Γιώργης Γιατρομανωλάκης (Editor) 4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1992	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Andreas Embirikos (?)

“L'ÉDREDON DE LA FÉLICITÉ
L'écart en la plaine de Roumanie jouira d'une pleine euphorie. Un jour dans ses palais pousseront d'arborescents platanes brandissant dans leurs paumes des glaives ou des javelots incandescents. L'indolent bélier qui gîte aujourd'hui en son église cathédrale sera remplacé par une femme en copulation perpétuelle et tout autour de la rue principale les prisonniers politiques joueront le divin mystère de la résurrection d'une tête tranchée avec l'accompagnement musical d'un célesta.

(p.55)”
― Andreas Embirikos, Ο Μέγας Ανατολικός: Τόμος Α'

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“La forme première de la femme fut l'enlacement des cols de deux dinosaures. […] Les époques changent et la femme de notre époque ressemble à une fente à mèche.

(p. 17)”
― Andreas Embirikos, Ο Μέγας Ανατολικός: Τόμος Α'

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