Konstantinos Chatzopulos

Konstantinos Chatzopulos ( Greek Κωνσταντίνος Χατζόπουλος ; born September 1, 1868 in Agrinio ; † July 20, 1920 in Brindisi ) was a Greek writer .

The novel Fthinoporo (Autumn) by Konstantinos Chatzopulos, published in 1917, gave modern Greek prose a new impetus . In it the author ties in with the basic symbolist attitude of his early poetry . A suggestive poetic atmosphere pushes the social issues into the background - it turns out that both aspects are difficult to reconcile.

Although Germany did not become the setting for his poetry, Chatzopulos spent the most literarily productive part of his life in Germany. Here he took up influences that would shape his entire later work and at the same time describe its area of ​​tension: During his literary work, Chatzopulos fluctuated between subtle lyric poetry and socially critical prose, between symbolism and socialism. Konstantinos Chatzopulos wraps melancholy dreariness and pathological silence, but also romantic love, in a colorful haze. What remains are deceptive picture puzzles in autumnal coastal fog.

Despite all approaches, the novel does not do justice to the predicate poésie pure . The author risks a look out of the ivory tower and cultivates social criticism in trace elements - admittedly without describing dramatic social conflicts. So he describes, sometimes with restrained irony, the static boredom of a small-town upper class, recognizably shaped by the circumstances of the time and the so-called Greek soul.

literature

• Konstantinos Chatzopulos: Autumn. From modern Greek by Alexis Eideneier. Cologne: Romiosini 1997.

swell

• Book Description im Romiosini-Verlag

Web links

• Literature by and about Konstantinos Chatzopulos in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Quoted from: Bernd Gräf: The literatures of Asia from the beginnings to the present . Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 978-3-7772-9110-9 ( = Volume 23 of the series "Der Romanführer" ), p. 4.