Oedipus is Innocent (Paperback)

Nicolas Calas

ISBN 10: 1916139272 / ISBN 13: 9781916139275

Published by Smokestack Books, Middlesborough, 2020

About this Item

Paperback. Nicolas Calas (1907-1988) was a truly international poet, critic and polemicist. He wrote in Greek, French and English. He designed a chess-set with Andre Breton, wrote an anthropological study with Margaret Mead, appeared in a film by Hans Richter and first translated Louis Aragon, Benjamin Peret and TS Eliot into Greek. One of the early Greek Surrealists, he tried to combine avant-garde poetics with Trotskyism, Freudianism and Marxism, first in Athens, then in Paris and New York. Oedipus is Innocent is the first collection of Calas poems in English translation, a selection of his best work from 1933-82. From Futurist and Surrealist experiment to harsh satire, revolutionary fervour to dispassionate mockery, Calas work employed shock, paradox, surprise, alienation and transformation to lay bare what he regarded as the falseness of Western society and the dishonesty of capitalist morality. The first collection in English of poems by the Greek Communist-Surrealist poet and critic Nicolas Calas (1907-1988). Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Seller Inventory # 9781916139275

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Oedipus is Innocent (Paperback)
• Publisher: Smokestack Books, Middlesborough
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1916139272
• ISBN 13: 9781916139275
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

Nicolas Calas (1907-1988) was a truly international poet, critic and polemicist. He wrote in Greek, French and English. He designed a chess-set with André Breton, wrote an anthropological study with Margaret Mead, appeared in a film by Hans Richter and first translated Louis Aragon, Benjamin Péret and TS Eliot into Greek. One of the early Greek Surrealists, he tried to combine avant-garde poetics with Trotskyism, Freudianism and Marxism, first in Athens, then in Paris and New York.

Oedipus is Innocent is the first collection of Calas’ poems in English translation, a selection of his best work from 1933-82. From Futurist and Surrealist experiment to harsh satire, revolutionary fervour to dispassionate mockery, Calas’ work employed shock, paradox, surprise, alienation and transformation to lay bare what he regarded as the falseness of Western society and the dishonesty of capitalist morality.