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Ο Μέγας Ανατολικός #6
Ο Μέγας Ανατολικός: Τόμος ΣΤ'
Ο Μέγας Ανατολικός είναι το έργο ζωής του ποιητή. Άρχισε να γράφεται το 1945 και ολοκληρώθηκε ύστερα από ενδιάμεσες φάσεις το 1970. Το μυθιστόρημα αποτελείται από 100 κεφάλαια, που συγκροτούν πέντε μέρη, και κυκλοφορεί σε οκτώ τόμους. Πρόκειται για το μεγαλύτερο και τολμηρότερο μυθιστόρημα της ελληνικής γλώσσας.
Το θέμα του μυθιστορήματος είναι το παρθενικό ταξίδι του υπερωκεανείου "Μέγας Ανατολικός" από την Αγγλία στην Αμερική, τον Μάιο του 1867. Επιβάτες πάσης τάξεως και επαγγέλματος και πλήρωμα διαπλέουν τον Ατλαντικό μέσα στην ηδονική Κιβωτό, απολαμβάνοντας όλες τις μορφές του έρωτα άνευ ορίων και άνευ όρων. Επηρεασμένοι από έναν πρωτογενή ερωτσιμό που ελκύει το ίδιο το υπερωκεάνειο, ζουν, κατά τον δεκαήμερο πλου, την απόλυτη ελευθερία και ηδονή για να καταλήξουν σε μια ανώτατη μορφή αθωότητας και ευτυχίας.
Ο Οδυσσέας Ελύτης γράφει για τον "Μεγάλο Ανατολικό" ότι η απώτερη αξία του δεν βρίσκεται στα περιγραφόμενα, "βρίσκεται στην παναγαθοσύνη του ποιητή που διαχέεται πάνω στους χαρακτήρες και στις πράξεις των πλέον διαφορετικών τύπων του έργου, πρωταγωνιστών ή κομπάρσων, και αναεκπέμπεται αδιάκοπα στον αναγνώστη σαν ένα είδος ευλογίας. [...] Ο Μέγας Ανατολικός ναυπηγήθηκε με τα υλικά του ψυχαναλυτή στις δεξαμενές ενός οραματιστή και προφήτη".
Το θέμα του μυθιστορήματος είναι το παρθενικό ταξίδι του υπερωκεανείου "Μέγας Ανατολικός" από την Αγγλία στην Αμερική, τον Μάιο του 1867. Επιβάτες πάσης τάξεως και επαγγέλματος και πλήρωμα διαπλέουν τον Ατλαντικό μέσα στην ηδονική Κιβωτό, απολαμβάνοντας όλες τις μορφές του έρωτα άνευ ορίων και άνευ όρων. Επηρεασμένοι από έναν πρωτογενή ερωτσιμό που ελκύει το ίδιο το υπερωκεάνειο, ζουν, κατά τον δεκαήμερο πλου, την απόλυτη ελευθερία και ηδονή για να καταλήξουν σε μια ανώτατη μορφή αθωότητας και ευτυχίας.
Ο Οδυσσέας Ελύτης γράφει για τον "Μεγάλο Ανατολικό" ότι η απώτερη αξία του δεν βρίσκεται στα περιγραφόμενα, "βρίσκεται στην παναγαθοσύνη του ποιητή που διαχέεται πάνω στους χαρακτήρες και στις πράξεις των πλέον διαφορετικών τύπων του έργου, πρωταγωνιστών ή κομπάρσων, και αναεκπέμπεται αδιάκοπα στον αναγνώστη σαν ένα είδος ευλογίας. [...] Ο Μέγας Ανατολικός ναυπηγήθηκε με τα υλικά του ψυχαναλυτή στις δεξαμενές ενός οραματιστή και προφήτη".
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First published January 1, 1991
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About the author
Andreas Embirikos
33 books43 followersAndreas 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".
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".
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