Emerita Professor of Modern Greek Literature at the University of Athens, Christina Dounia — author of the book «Το Όνειρο και το Πάθος» (Dream and Passion) is the guest on this episode of “Remarkable Personalities” with Stavroula Karali, in an episode dedicated to Kostas Karyotakis.
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Emerita Professor of Modern Greek Literature at the University of Athens, Christina Dounia — author of the book «Το Όνειρο και το Πάθος» (Dream and Passion) is the guest on Wednesday, 03 December 2025, at 22:00 Athens time, on Voice of Greece’s program “Remarkable Personalities” with Stavroula Karali, in a...
Karyotakis influenced many of the poets who came after him and created a literary fashion, Karyotacism, which flooded modern Greek poetry. Going against the sentimentality of his era, Karyotakis conveys a sense of the futile. He writes sarcastic poems about the inglorious and the insignificant as a...
Kostas Karyotakis was born in 1896 and died in 1928, committing suicide at the age of just 32. He is considered one of the most representative Greek poets of the 1920s, with his poetry adding a tragic dimension to the neo-Symbolist and neo-Romantic poetry of his time. Today, we are listrening poetry...
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