Later in May the Branch of the Hellenic Foundation for Culture in Odessa will present a project entitled “Kostis Palamas (1859-1943), the great Greek poet, writer and dramatist, one of the major representatives of Modern Greek literature in the 20th century”.
The presentation will include the following events:
1. Flatbed photographic exhibition “K. Palamas (1859-1943), his life and works”
opens Thursday, May 21, 16:00
2. Literary and musical performance
Thursday, May 21, 16:30-18:00
3. Lecture “Works of Kostis Palamas in the context of the European tradition” by Dr. Valentina Silantieva, Head of the Department of Foreign Literature at Odessa National University
Friday, May 22, 16:00-17:30.
Lecture: “Works of Kostis Palamas in the context of the European tradition”.
Lecturer: Prof. Valentina Silantieva, Head of Department of Foreign Literature, Odessa National University.
The name of Kostis Palamas (1859-1943), the great Greek poet, writer, dramatist and the member of Athenian Academy, is closely associated with a special period in the evolution of Greek literature. His works can be comprehended in the context of a general European evolution of ideological and artistic predilections.
He proceeded from democratic views and celebrating the revolutionary burst in the last quarter of the 19th century to the New poetry of the 20th century, which preferred philosophical and modernist experiments. In result, poetic forms of Kostis Palamas can be scrutinized in the context of “L’Internationale” by Eugene Pottier and Pierre DeGeyter or, in Russian context, this could be compared with both the paintings by Ilya Repin “Arrest of a Propagandist” and “Unexpected” and the poetry by Boris Pasternak of the 1920s, i.e. poetry of the period when the rapturous Russian poet wrote his poetic series “On morning trains”.
Kostis Palamas is also known as the author of the Olympic Anthem played at Moscow Olympic Games in 1980 and, more recently, at the Olympics in Sochi in 2014.
