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Il loggione
Nelle settantadue poesie brevi del Loggione (scritte a metà degli anni Ottanta, ma pubblicate trent'anni più tardi) Ghiannis Ritsos, uno dei poeti greci più significativi del XX secolo, monta il proprio scenario: costruisce città, porti, strade e villaggi, ravvivandoli coi colori delle attività umane e i suoni della vita quotidiana - segni e simboli insieme. In modo apparentemente casuale, il poeta allinea sapientemente parole che toccano le corde più riposte nell'intimo del lettore. Spettatori dal Loggione, ci abbandoniamo a un'emozione profonda: quella dell'autentica poesia
160 pages, Paperback
Published June 5, 2018
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Yiannis Ritsos
285 books300 followersYiannis Ritsos (Greek: Γιάννης Ρίτσος) is considered to be one of the five great Greek poets of the twentieth century, together with Konstantinos Kavafis, Kostas Kariotakis, Giorgos Seferis, and Odysseus Elytis. The French poet Louis Aragon once said that Ritsos was "the greatest poet of our age."
Yannis Ritsos was born in Monemvassia (Greece), on May 1st, 1909 as cadet of a noble family of landowners. Born to a well-to-do landowning family in Monemvasia, Ritsos suffered great losses as a child. The early deaths of his mother and his eldest brother from tuberculosis, the commitment of his father who suffered with mental disease and the economic ruin of losing his family marked Ritsos and affected his poetry. Ritsos, himself, was confined in a sanatorium for tuberculosis from 1927–1931.
These tragic events mark him and obsess his œuvre. In 1931, Ritsos joined the Communist Party of Greece (KKE). During the Axis occupation of Greece (1941–1945) he became a member of the EAM (National Liberation Front), and authored several poems for the Greek Resistance. These include a booklet of poems dedicated to the resistance leader Ares Velouchiotis, written immediately upon the latter's death on 16 June 1945. Ritsos also supported the left in the subsequent Civil War (1946-1949); in 1948 he was arrested and spent four years in prison camps.
Yannis Ritsos was born in Monemvassia (Greece), on May 1st, 1909 as cadet of a noble family of landowners. Born to a well-to-do landowning family in Monemvasia, Ritsos suffered great losses as a child. The early deaths of his mother and his eldest brother from tuberculosis, the commitment of his father who suffered with mental disease and the economic ruin of losing his family marked Ritsos and affected his poetry. Ritsos, himself, was confined in a sanatorium for tuberculosis from 1927–1931.
These tragic events mark him and obsess his œuvre. In 1931, Ritsos joined the Communist Party of Greece (KKE). During the Axis occupation of Greece (1941–1945) he became a member of the EAM (National Liberation Front), and authored several poems for the Greek Resistance. These include a booklet of poems dedicated to the resistance leader Ares Velouchiotis, written immediately upon the latter's death on 16 June 1945. Ritsos also supported the left in the subsequent Civil War (1946-1949); in 1948 he was arrested and spent four years in prison camps.
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December 27, 2022
Una poesia essenziale e scarna che richiama oggetti e parole della quotidianità e le risemantizza dando loro connotati simbolici che il lettore è chiamato a decifrare. La raccolta di poesie, come ci dice il titolo, offre uno sguardo dall'alto sul mondo, lo sguardo di un poeta che - forse disilluso - osserva dal loggione del teatro lo spettacolo del mondo.
Se vi capita, date anche un'occhiata alla pagina a sinistra, vi farà bene.
Se vi capita, date anche un'occhiata alla pagina a sinistra, vi farà bene.
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