M. Karagatsis
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Categories: 1908 births | 1960 deaths | People from Athens | Greek dramatists and playwrights | Greek journalists | Greek novelists
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M. Karagatsis (1908-1960) was the pen name of the important modern Greek novelist, journalist, critic and playwright Dimitris Rodopoulos. He was born in Athens, lived in Larissa and studied law in France. The pen name M. Karagatsis is the name the novelist is known with. The letter "M." comes from Mitja which is the diminutive of Dimitrios (his real name). The word "Karagatsis" comes from the tree "Karagatsi" under the shadow of which he used to write as a young writer. EvaluationKaragatsis has been characterized as primarily a prose writer of the illusory reality of persons and situations. His writing is bold, sensual, with great imagination and a unique narrative style, and is often studied by Greek students. His first three novels (Colonel Liapkin, Chimaera and Junkerman) compose a trilogy named Acclimazation under Apollo, about foreigners who live and work in Greece. Karagatsis sets these books in modern, cosmopolitan Greece, in contrast with the stereotype that Greek life is conservative and countrified. BooksKaragatsis is one of the few modern Greek writers to be translated, (mainly in German, but also in English, Italian, French) and his most important works are:
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