Aris Marangopoulos Writer
Aris Maragkopoulos (this spelling of gk instead of ng is the exact transliteration of the Greek ΜαραΓΚόπουλος, b. Athens, 1948) is a Greek author, literary critic and translator. He studied History and Archeology at the University of Athens, History of Art and Archeology at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. He is one of the few modernist / postmodernist writers of prose in Greece and has been writing since the early eighties. Most of his novels deal with the Utopian idea of communal love as a means of civil disobedience and some of them include whole pages or, in some cases, whole chapters, written in an elective modernist style resembling a poème en prose. Vassilis Vassilikos, author of the novel Z, has written for Maragkopoulos' political novel Obsession with Spring: «It is the outcome of a difficult journey through the clashing rocks of James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges, a fruitful journey that made him rediscover Honoré de Balzac’s gold… A fantastic political thriller, an anatomy of the country we call Hellas, a novel that opens a wide discussion amid the reading community since it re-reads our recent history» Maragkopoulos is considered an authority on James Joyce in Greece. He has written three books and many articles on the matter. His most important study, Ulysses, A reader's guide is principally an attempt to explain James Joyce's Ulysses through affinities to its Homeric counterpart, the Odyssey, – affinities clearly exposed for the reader, in richly documented text. Exegetic suggestions in response to central issues of the Joycean critical literature are also seriously treated in the volume – documented as they are in a thorough textual and intertextual analysis of the original. His Joycean studies have influenced his critical reading of Greek modern and contemporary prose: his writings over the years ask for a total re-mapping of the reception of literature in Greece. He has served for two consecutive terms as Secretary Executive of the Hellenic Authors' Society. His novel Love, Gardens, Ingratitude has been translated into Serbian, his Obsession with Spring into Turkish, his short novel Nostalgic Clone into English and various texts and articles into English, French, Turkish and Serbian.
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| Career start | 1966 |
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| Career end | 1975 |
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