Dimitris Lyacos

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Dimitris Lyacos ( Greek Δημήτρης Λυάκος ; born October 19, 1966 in Athens ) is a Greek poet and playwright.

Life

Lyacos grew up in Athens and studied at the University of Jura. From 1988 to 1991 he lived in Venice . In 1992 he moved to London . He studied philosophy at University College London with the analytical philosophers Ted Honderich and Tim Crane with a focus on epistemology and metaphysics , philosophy of the ancient world and Wittgenstein . In 2005 he moved to Berlin. He currently lives in Berlin and Athens .

Career

In 1992 Lyacos began the “Poena Damni” trilogy. The title refers to the punishment of the damned souls in hell for not seeing God. The trilogy is structured in such a way that it starts with the end and then goes back to the beginning. Over the course of thirty years the plant has gradually developed into a "work-in-progress". The third part (The First Death) first appeared in Greek (Ο πρώτος θάνατος) and was later translated into English, Spanish and German. The second part, entitled "Nyctivoe", was originally published in 2001 in Greek and German and in 2005 in English. This work was replaced in 2014 by a new version entitled Mit den Menschen von der Brücke .

Several artists have brought Lyacos' works into various artistic media. The Austrian artist Sylvie Proidl presented a series of paintings in Vienna in 2002. A sound and sculpture installation by the sculptor Fritz Unegg and the BBC producer Piers Burton-Page went on a European tour in 2004. In 2005 the Austrian visual artist Gudrun Bielz presented a video artwork inspired by Nyctivoe. The Myia dance company performed a contemporary dance version of Nyctivoe in Greece from 2006 to 2009. A music / theater version of Z213: Exit by the Greek composers Maria Aloupi and Andreas Diktyopoulos, played by Das Neue Ensemble and the Greek actor Dimitris Lignadis , was presented in 2013. Lyacos was a guest International Poet with Les Murray in 1998 , at Poetryfest International Poetry Festival, Aberystwyth, Wales. From then on he conducted readings and taught at various universities around the world, including Oxford, Trieste, Hong Kong and Nottingham. In 2012 he was Writer in Residence on the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa . He is one of the youngest Greek writers to gain international recognition. Poena Damni is the most frequently reviewed Greek literary work of the past few decades and Z213: Exit is arguably the best-selling book in contemporary Greek poetry in English translation. Lyacos was a guest author at the Tbilisi International Literature Festival in 2017. He represented Greece at the 2018 Transpoesy Festival in Brussels .

Poena Damni: The Trilogy

Poena Damni Trilogy - German edition

Lyacos is the author of the Poena Damni trilogy. Lyacos' work is known for its anti-genre form and the avant-garde combination of themes from the literary tradition with elements from ritual , religion , philosophy and anthropology . It re-examines the great narratives related to some of the long-running motifs of the Western canon. Despite the limited length of the entire trilogy of no more than two hundred pages, work on Poena Damni took thirty years, during which time the individual books were revised and published in different editions. They are grouped around a collection of terms including scapegoat , search, return of the dead, salvation, physical suffering, and mental illness. Lyacos' characters are always removed from society, refugees like the narrator of Z213: Exit , outcasts in a dystopian hinterland like the characters in Mit den Menschen von der Brücke or like the protagonist of The First Death , whose struggle for survival takes place on a desert-like island carries out. Poena Damni has been conceived as an "allegory of misfortune" along with works by authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Thomas Pynchon , while at the same time being one of the most important exponents of the postmodern sublime and one of the most important anti-utopian works of the 21st century.

Summary / context

The trilogy seems to belong to a context of tragic poetry and epic drama, albeit at the same time clearly postmodern. It explores the deep structure of tragedy rather than its formal features and has therefore been called a post-tragic work. Homer, Aeschylus and Dante as well as the darker aspects of romantic poetry along with symbolism, expressionism and an intense religious and philosophical interest permeate the work. Poena Damni is thus, despite its postmodern features, more related to the ultra-modern tradition of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. The first of the three pieces, Z213: Exit (Z213: ΕΞΟΔΟΣ), tells about a man's escape from a guarded city and his journey through dreamy, sometimes nightmarish countries. In the second book Mit den Menschen von der Brücke (Με τους ανθρώπους από τη γέφυρα) the protagonist of Z213: Exit becomes a narrator of the first degree who appears as a spectator in a makeshift game played under the arches of an abandoned train station. The third book, The First Death (Ο Πρώτος Θάνατος), opens with a man on a rocky island and describes his struggle for survival as well as the disintegration of his body and the rolling up of his storage banks.

overview

The work is difficult to classify as it crosses the usual genre boundaries. Z213: Exit recontextualizes elements from the larger Greek canon - including the escaped hero and the devotee wanderer. It often exhibits a narrative form, mixing poetry and prose. The trilogy turns into a dramatic representation of character and situation in With the People from the Bridge and later in The First Death a harsh lyrical kind of poetry is used to depict the decomposition and eventual apotheosis of the body. The possibilities of divergence between the perceived and the objective outside world are exploited; The reader follows the irregular flow of inner monologues stemming from events in the outside world and ultimately seen as being reflected on the thought and feeling surfaces of the protagonist's mind. On the other hand, an extraterrestrial environment and the unfolding dream-like events are presented with impressive solidity, indicating an alternate reality or revealing a hidden dimension of the world. From this perspective, the work was interpreted as a kind of "surfiction".

Z213: Exit (part 1 of the trilogy)

The first of the pieces Z213: Exit describes the escape of a young man from a guarded city and his journey through dreamlike, sometimes nightmare-like countries. Z213: Exit uses the device of the palimpsest to present a fictional fabric and to combine elements from ancient and modern sources as well as the "dialogue" of its two protagonists. [41] It consists of a series of fragmented entries in a fictional diary that records the experiences of a nameless protagonist during a train ride to an unknown country. The man was released or escaped from a prison term described elliptically in his diary, and is reminiscent of a hospital, a prison, a ghetto or some kind of enclave . His subsequent wanderings between devastated landscapes on the edge of reality are set in a very detailed and somewhat Kafkaesque atmosphere, which underlines the point that the most dreamlike events are also the real ones. Along the way, the protagonist delves deeper into what appears to be a religious quest, while at the same time his growing sense of persecution introduces an element of tension and film noir character. The text depends on metaphysics, but also reminds one of a private eye of LA in a detective novel from the 1940s, which is on the verge of an extraordinary discovery. Z213: Exit ends with the description of a victim in which the protagonist and a "hungry band" roast a lamb on a spit, cut and skin its still bleating body and remove its entrails as if they were observing a sacred rite.

With the people of the bridge (part 2 of the trilogy)

In the second book, Mit den Menschen von der Brücke , a man possessed by demons tries to resuscitate the corpse of his beloved, but fails and is finally reunited with her in the grave. The book revolves around the story of a person who resembles the demonized person from the Gospel of Mark who lives in a cemetery, tormented by demons and cut himself with stones. He enters his dead lover's grave by attempting to open the coffin in which she appears to be in a state unaffected by decomposition. The urgency of his desire revitalizes her body, the transition into life is described. The tomb becomes a "fine and private place" for lovers who can still hug.

In a multi-perspective narrative narrative based on the theme of the revenant , the play tells the story through the embedded first person accounts of four characters: the demon possessed man tries to revive his lover's body but ends up to meet her in the grave. The action is surrounded by a context reminiscent of a festival of the dead and a vampire epidemic. There are clear references to Christian tradition and eschatology, and the play leads to a collective contemplation of collective salvation that ultimately remains unsolved after a final narrative twist.

The first death (part 3 of the trilogy)

The third book , The First Death, begins with a man abandoned on a rocky island and subsequently describes his struggle for survival and the disintegration of his body as well as the dissolution of his memory. In the text, the mutilated body is denied a place that rubs against the rocks and continually degrades physically and mentally, as even the mechanisms of memory are shifted. But the connection between man and body, which secures life, remains up to a "point without substance, where the world collides and takes off".

reception

Poena Damni is the most widely distributed and best-rated work of contemporary Greek literature in translation, the various editions of which had received 55 international reviews by autumn 2018. It was celebrated to creatively transcend the difference between modernism and postmodernism, although it is firmly anchored in a variety of canonical texts of Western literature. Most critics comment on the use of an intricate web of textual references and paraphrases of classical and biblical works, while also noting the unique style and character of the work. The trilogy has generated significant scholarly criticism and is also part of various university curricula on postmodern fiction.

Publication history

The Poena Damni trilogy was first published in German in the form of the first version of the second book [Nyctivoe] by CTL-Presse, Hamburg, in a two-volume Greek-German edition on the occasion of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2001. The first edition of the third book "Der first death "was first published in 2008 in German ( ISBN 978-3-940249-27-2 ), followed by a second edition in 2014 ( ISBN 978-3-940249-85-2 ). The final full trilogy edition was published by Klak Verlag in April 2020.

Bibliography in German

  • Dimitris Lyacos Poena Damni. Trilogy. Z213: Exit | With the people from the bridge | The first death. From modern Greek by Nina-Maria Wanek. KLAK publishing house. 2020. ISBN 978-3-948156-33-6
  • Poena Damni The First Death. German edition. Translated by Nina-Maria-Wanek. Publishing house J.Frank | Berlin, 2014.
  • Poena Damni The First Death. German edition. Translated by Nina-Maria-Wanek. Publishing house J.Frank | Berlin, 2008.
  • Poena Damni Nyctivoe. Greek-German edition. Translated by Nina-Maria Jaklitsch. CTL press. Hamburg. 2001.
  • Poena Damni Nyctivoe. English version. Translated by Shorsha Sullivan. Shoestring Press. 2005.

Web links

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Lyacos, Dimitris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Λυάκος, Δημήτρης (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek poet and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens