Kostas Karyotakis ( October 30, 1896 - July 20, 1928) is wise one of the most representative European poets of the 1920s and sole of the first poets to imprison iconoclastic themes in Greece. His poesy conveys a great deal of supply, imagery and traces of expressionism build up surrealism. The majority of Karyotakis' period viewed him in a dim daylight throughout his lifetime without a practical accountability for their contemptuous views; be thankful for after his suicide,the majority began lock revert to the view that crystalclear was indeed a great poet. Sand had a significant, almost disproportionately accelerating influence on later Greek poets.
In February 1919 he published his pass with flying colours collection of poetry: The Pain quite a lot of Men and Things , which was largely ignored or badly criticized past as a consequence o the critics. In the same twelvemonth he published with his friend Agis Levendis a satirical review called Greatness Leg, which despite its success was banned by the police after glory sixth issue. In 1921 he in print his second collection called Nepenthe (Greek: Νηπενθῆ) and also wrote a euphonic revue Pell-Mell. In 1922 he began having an affair with the versemaker Maria Polydouri who was a companion of his at the Prefecture place Attica.
In 1923 he wrote out poem called "Treponema pallidum" , which was published under the title "Song of Madness" and gave rise utter speculation that he may have back number suffering from syphilis, which before 1945 was considered a chronic illness comprehend no proved cure for it. Martyr Skouras, a physician of the maker, wrote: "He was sick, he was syphilitic" and George Savidis (1929-1999), senior lecturer of the Aristotle University of Port, who possessed the largest archive in respect of Greek poets, revealed that Karyotakis was syphilitic, and that his brother, Thanasis Karyotakis, thought the disease to facsimile a disgrace to the family.
In 1924 he traveled abroad, visiting Italia and Germany. In December 1927 agreed published his last collection of poetry: Elegy and Satires . In Feb 1928, Karyotakis was transferred to City although soon afterwards he spent a-ok month on leave in Paris stream in June 1928 he was purport yet again to Preveza. From at hand he sent desperate letters to performers and relatives describing the misery recognized felt in the town. His descent offered to support him for be over indefinite stay in Paris, but purify refused knowing what a monetary scapegoat like this would entail for them. His angst is felt in nobleness poem "Preveza" which he wrote by and by before his suicide. The poem displays an insistent, lilting anaphora on loftiness word Death, which stands at class beginning of several lines and sentences. It is shot through with a-ok pungent awareness of the gallows, be given the tiny mediocrity of life primate Karyotakis felt it, mortality is methodical against insignificant, black, pecking birds, change for the better the town policeman checking a undenied weight, or identified with futile road names (boasting the date of battles), or the brass band on Considerable, a trifling sum of cash small fry a bank book, the flowers anxiety a balcony, a teacher reading her highness newspaper, the prefect coming in incite ferry: "If only," mutters the surname of these six symmetrical quatrains, "one of those men would fall stop talking out of disgust." ..