An untimely poetry : the call of Haris Vlavianos’ Angel of History
Part of : Γράμμα : περιοδικό θεωρίας και κριτικής ; Vol.8, No.1, 2000, pages 125-138
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The paper explores Haris Vlavianos’ poetry, with a particular focus on The Angel of History, as an “untimely poetry” that is blessed by the superfluous, the marginal, the footnote and the everyday and seeks, through the banality and often grim penumbra of the superfluous, the luminous excess that the grand narratives of modem Greek poetry have often sacrificed at the altar of the necessary, that is, the modern. Vlavianos’ poetry completely and utterly demythologizes the modern and unconceals the nightmares of its dreams by speaking the silence of the margin in scenes of death and life, and visions of truth and darkness, without restoring them in a picture that renders them sensible and, thus, comprehensible. Hence, it is an “untimely poetry” for it acts counter to our time and on our time hopefully for the benefit of telling and retelling its stories, visions and scenes with the utmost and most painstaking sincerity. Its effort is to see through the curtain of the stage and beyond the “masquerade” of the history that veils the untrue to project it as the essential, and distorts the true to reduce it to the place of the footnote of the historical text.
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