Andreas Embirikos (Greek: Ανδρέας Εμπειρίκος) (Braila, 1901– Athens, 1975) was a Greek surrealist poet. 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Surrealism is an artistic movement and an aesthetic philosophy that aims for the liberation of the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative powers of the subconscious. ... A poet is some one who writes poetry. ...

Life

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. 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. Ship owners can be owners of small personal watercraft such as motor boats or sailboats. ... Brăila is a city in Muntenia, eastern Romania, a port on the Danube and the capital of the Brăila county, in the close vecinity of GalaÅ£i. ... Ermoupoli (Greek: Ερμούπολη - Ermoúpoli), also known as Syros is a town in eastern Greece. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... City flag. ... The National and Capodistrian University of Athens (Greek: Εθνικόν και Καποδιστριακόν Πανεπιστήμιον Αθηνών), usually called just University of Athens, is the oldest university in modern Greece, and has been in continuous operation since it was founded, on 1837. ... Lausanne is a city in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, situated on the shores of Lake Geneva (French: Lac Léman), and facing Évian-les-Bains (France) and with the Jura hills to its north. ...

The following years Embirikos studied a variety of subjects both in France and in the United Kingdom; however it was in Paris where he decided to study psychanalysis together with René Laforgue. The Eiffel Tower, the international symbol of the city, as viewed from the Trocadéro This article is about the capital and largest city in France. ... Psychoanalysis is the revelation of unconscious relations, in a systematic way through an associative process. ...

• 1929 Meets with the surrealists and is interested in automatic writing.

• 1931 Returns to Greece and works for some time at the shipdocks.

• 1940 Gets married with poetess Matsi Hatzilazarou; nevertheless, they divorce four years later. The same year he divorced his wife, he was arrested by the communist organization OPLA and was treated in a humiliating way.

• 1935 Gives the famous lecture Peri surrealismou (On surrealism) in Athens and publishes Ipsikaminos; a pure surrealist text.

• 1947 Gets married for the second time with Vivika Zisi. A year later, his father, with whom Embeirikos' relationship was rather normal, dies in Geneva.

• 1962 Together with Yorgos Theotokas and Odysseas Elytis, he was invited to travel to the USSR by the "Greco-Soviet" Union; the trip was an adventurous one and it inspired him the poem ES ES ES ER Rossia.

• 1975 He dies in Kifissia; his mother preceded him by only two years.

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Poetry

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. Look up Heretic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up book in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

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. The house where Seferis was born and raised in Urla Giorgos Seferis (Γιώργος Σεφέρης) (February 19, 1900 – September 20, 1971) was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century. ...

Megas Anatolikos

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 (Megas Anatolikos)) 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". The Great Eastern was a ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. ... The Decameron is a collection of novellas that was finished by Giovanni Boccaccio in 1353. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Literary critic

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". Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor, critic and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. ... Nikos Engonopoulos (October 21, 1907 – October 31, 1985) was a modern Greek painter and poet. ... Elbasan (Albanian: Elbasan or Elbasani) is a city in central Albania. ... Fatih Sultan Mehmed Bridge over the Bosporus seen from over Rumelihisarı This article is about the strait; Bosphorus is also a Turkish Boğaziçi or İstanbul Boğazı) is a strait that separates the European part (Rumeli) of Turkey from its Asian part (Anadolu), connecting the Sea of Marmara (Marmara Denizi) with...

Bibliography

• Ipsikaminos (Blast furnace) (1935)
• Endochora (Mainland) (1945)
• Grapta e Prosopiki Mythologia (Writings or Personal Mythology) (1960)
• ES ES ES ER Rossia (ES ES ES ER Russia) (1962)
• Argo e Plus Aerostatou (Argo or Aerostat Flight) (1964)
• Oktana (Ὀκτάνα) (1980)
• Ai Genee Pase e E Simeron os Avrion kai os Chthes (Every Generation or Today as Tomorrow and as Yesterday) (1985)
• Armala e Eisagogi se mia poli (Armala or Introduction to a city) (1985)
• O Megas Anatolikos (The Great Eastern) (1990)
• Zemfyra e To mystikon tis Pasifais (Zemphyra or The secret of Pasiphae) (1997)
• The hidden necrophilia in the works of Edgar Allan Poe (2000)
• Nikos Engonopoulos or the miracle of Elbassan and Bosphorus (2000)
• Dialexi 1963 (2000)

• a translation of Picasso's The four little girls (1980)

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External links

• (in Greek) An homage site for the hundred years from Embirikos birth