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M. Karagatsis |
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23rd June 1908 |
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Athens, Greece |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
M. Karagatsis (1908-1960) was the pen name of the important modern Greek novelist, journalist, critic and playwright Dimitris Rodopoulos. He was born in Athens and studied law in France.
Evaluation
Karagatsis has been characterized as primarily a prose writer of the illusory reality of persons and situations. His writing is bold, sensual, with great imagination and a unique narrative style, and is often studied by Greek students. His first three novels (Colonel Liapkin, Chimaera and Junkerman) compose a trilogy named Acclimazation under Apollo, about foreigners who live and work in Greece. Karagatsis sets these books in modern, cosmopolitan Greece, in contrast with the stereotype that Greek life is conservative and countrified.
Books
Karagatsis is one of the few modern Greek writers to be translated, (mainly in German, but also in English, Italian, French) and his most important works are:
- Miss Nitsa ( 1929, short novel awarded by Nea Estia)
- Colonel Liapkin (1933)
- Junkerman (1939)
- The last days of Junkerman (1940)
- Lost island (1941)
- The ruler of Kastropyrgos (1944)
- Great Sleep (1946)
- Bar Eldorado (Stage play, 1946)
- Blood lost and gained (1947)
- Carmen (Stage play, 1948)
- History of Greeks (nonfiction, 1952)
- At God's Hands (1954)
- Death and Thodoros (1956)
- Yellow envelope (1957)
- Sergios and Vacchos (1959)
- 10 (1960)
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