Lecture to shed light on legacy of poet Kostas Karyotakis

The work of writer Kostas Karyotakis will beryllium highlighted successful an online lecture connected 16 April. The lecture will beryllium held successful Greek and delivered online (it tin beryllium followed connected YouTube oregon Facebook).

The speaker will beryllium Associate Professor Michail Bakoyiannis, who has been teaching Modern Greek Literature astatine the School of Philology astatine the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki since 2011.

Associate Professor Michail Bakoyiannis will present the lecture. Photo: Supplied

The lawsuit will spell heavy into Karyotakis (1896-1928), who is considered by galore critics to beryllium the top writer of his procreation that scholars telephone the Generation of 1920.

The lecture is slated to code galore questions relating to the poet, such arsenic what the distinctive features of his poetic work are and however it reflects κοινωνικά reality, why his poesy was associated with the poesy of the French «les poètes maudits», and however his work was received by the Generation of 1930 and postwar critics.