By Nikola Zois
Among the many classics, he has been dropped at stage and display, nonetheless, within the final 12 months, two new articles have severely criticized his work M. Karagatsi. The primary, by editor Kostas Spatharakis, was printed within the literary journal “Injury” within the spring of 2023 and, quoting phrases from novel “Nice Chimera”, famous “the plain biology of the textual content, sociological banality and violent sexism”. The second, by the creator Rena Luna, was just lately printed in Lifo and describes the identical ebook with phrases corresponding to “guilt, defeat, monetary management and all of the instructing that ladies obtained from the Church about their position, given in a means unacceptable romantic and easy behavioral dipoles’. And whereas the same old disagreements with Karagatsis’ “patriarchy” or “realism” prevailed in social networking media, one other query is raised: What aesthetic, ideological or different standards will we learn for writers from different eras? Two authors reply.
Ideology will get in the best way
By Christos Homenidis
The soul of M. Karagatsis, if it exists someplace, will tremble with pleasure. Are you aware many authors who’re nonetheless inflicting controversy 64 years after their dying? For many of our twentieth century writers, the work is consigned to reward and oblivion. We take a look at the Fashionable Greek course which, as it’s taught, transforms the thrilling into the trivial. Nevertheless, Karagatsis has learn. He sucks. And this implies he has a present. To create a slim world, spartan characters, tales that the reader can not resist. I’ve heard rather a lot in opposition to it. Nobody ever claimed to start out a ebook and get out of it and get out…
When “Yügerman” was printed constantly across the 12 months 1940 in “Nea Hestia”, not many readers have been postpone by the crude descriptions – he says. With pornographic content material. One thing comparable occurred just lately. A few of them stated that they have been extraordinarily offended as a result of – they stated – Karagatsis “writes with hatred for ladies. “The Nice Chimera”, they continued, “is a sexual discord made with ugly and hateful phrases… “. How critically would we take note of the pre-war catechists, who thought that the aim of literature was to reward nature and Greek-Christian beliefs, much more than the “politically appropriate” ones of at the moment. Blinded by anti-patriarchal rage, wanting to throw into the hearth any murals that isn’t aligned with their concepts, they don’t even perceive what Karagatsis is saying. He describes the deadlock of his darkish heroes, who assume they promote poisonous masculinity Ideologies do severe, maybe irreparable, harm to intelligence.
In America, philologists “wakened” demanding that not Philip Roth and Henry Miller be censored, however even Mark Twain. In “Tom Sawyer”, in “Hawk Finn”, the wretch makes use of the phrase “Arab” (as an alternative of “African-American”, which was not even within the language on the time…).
He describes the dilemma confronted by his darkish heroes, who they assume promotes poisonous masculinity.
Studying the anti-Karagatsi rumours, I remembered the best way Aliki Vougiouklakis responded to a number of the issues that folks outdoors the Thessaloniki Competition stated to her. “Come on… I am having enjoyable with you. With me you imagined from the screens. And you are still on the skin.”
* Mr. Christos Homenidis is an creator.
His works don’t belong to me
by Vivian Stergiou*
We all the time learn within the current tense. So, if we do not like one thing right here and now, for instance the shallow feminine characters in a drama, we can’t even have an excuse. We will likely be sorry to say that the person writes “do not hit me so laborious, you’ll kill me and it does not work. It does not give you the results you want’? We is not going to apologize for not eager to learn such phrases. And nobody ought to drill our minds with its worth in schoolrooms, leaving the enjoyment of studying. How will we do this? I am studying Karagatsi and I can not consider extra boring, higher than a toll sales space employee The poisonous feedback on social media are maybe probably the most boring to learn lately.
The issue I’ve with the phrase “prepared to mix in with any testosterone that comes its means” is that it implies some issues concerning the place of ladies that make my hair stand on finish, it is that the It is a preventing phrase, it’s. all uncomfortable. Is she sexual? Um, I am sick of being crap, with the author’s creativeness so slim. Effectively, my drawback with Karagatsis is not primarily the sexism. It’s that I believe that his works should not with me for a number of causes together with the model, the model, the aesthetics, however, sure, girls too, that, okay, I am not baked. If anybody else feels nice studying it, nicely carried out, completely satisfied studying! I would discover abilities there sooner or later too – by no means say by no means!
I will not cease studying Henry James, the Iliad, and many others., although, as a result of I noticed her as a feminist! I cannot take away Welbeck from my coronary heart, even when he speaks probably the most horrible obscenities. And I am not searching for my mirror in literature, I am searching for one thing that makes me develop (see Seferis and others of his stature).
Discovering sure phrases about sexual abominations is a respectable motive to place a ebook apart.
So let’s eliminate the Karagatsides and all of the depressing Greek junk and the Greek-man-writer icon, in the event you do not kiss him you may be referred to as to apologize, if that is how we really feel. However let’s examine the explanations. Discovering sure phrases about sexual abominations is a respectable motive to place a ebook apart.
* Mrs Vivian Stergiou is a author.