The directory «Plots»

Elytis (Ελύτη) Odysseus
(pseud. of Odysseus Alepoudelis)
(1911—1996)

Greek poet, b. Iraklion, Crete. Strongly influenced by surrealism, especially the works of Paul Éluard, in the 1930s he began publishing individualistic and sensuous lyric poetry replete with imagery of the Aegean Islands. He fought with the antifascist resistance in World War II; after the war, his work retained an optimism tempered by... More...

Greece, 1997, Odysseas Elytis

Uganda, 1995, Odysseus Elytis