Yannis Ritsos - Poems, Volume VI

Aligizakis, Manolis

ISBN 10: 1926763785 / ISBN 13: 9781926763781

Published by Libros Libertad, 2026

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Yannis Ritsos - Poems, Volume VI
• Publisher: Libros Libertad
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1926763785
• ISBN 13: 9781926763781
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Ritsos was the man who, like most others, sought the simple life of a family; he, too, wished to enjoy his cool wine under the shade of the grapevine, and to laugh at his daughter’s games in the family home; he, too, wished to devote his time to a simple lifestyle, however, the tense events and political situation of his era, the dichotomy of East and West, communism as opposed to the western capitalistic oriented society, and the barriers one side created to hold the other side at bay, along with the dreadful condition of the era’s society, the poverty of the majority of people, forced him to act and take a position. The side he took, not being the black pea in the soup like most people of the early twentieth century, was the side of the left, which resulted in him being persecuted and exiled twice in his life and spending a long time under house arrest, too. Surely, he maintained a positive attitude during all this; however, disillusionment eventually settled as the years passed, and while the poet kept on observing the successes and failures of the system into which he devoted his early work, that resulted in his understanding that a political system is as good as the people who run it and as these people are controlled by their littleness and self-absorption the system is due to fail, and indeed it did.

About the Author

Manolis (Emmanuel Aligizakis) has published more than 20 books of poetry, three novels, and eleven major translation works. His translation George Seferis-Collected Poems was shortlisted for the Greek National Literary Awards. His articles, poems and short stories in both Greek and English have appeared in books, magazines and newspapers in Canada, United States, Sweden, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Australia, and Greece. His poetry has been translated into Spanish, Romanian, Swedish, Portuguese, German, Hungarian, Urdu and Punjabi.