Mediterranean Modernisms: The Poetic Metaphysics of Odysseus Elytis

Engaging with the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Odysseus Elytis within the framework of international modernism, Marinos Pourgouris places the poet’s work in the context of other modernist thinkers in Europe, including Albert Camus, Charles Baudelaire, Gaston Bachelard, Sigmund Freud, and C. G. Jung. Informed by extensive research in the United States and Europe, Pourgouris’s study is one of the most compelling contributions to the comparative study of Greek modernism, the Mediterranean, and the work of Odysseus Elytis.

Marinos Pourgouris is Assistant Professor in the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Cyprus, Cyprus.