06 Transplanting Surrealism in Greece - a Scandal or Not?

Maklena NIKA
2015 International Journal of Social and Educational Innovation  
Transplanting the surrealist movement and literature in Greece and feedback from the critics and philological and journalistic circles of the time is of special importance in the history of Modern Greek Literature. The Greek critics and readers who were used to a traditional, patriotic and strictly rule-conforming literature would find it hard to accept such a kind of literature. The modern Greek surrealist writers, in close cooperation mainly with French surrealist writers, would be subject to
more » ... harsh criticism for their surrealist, absurd, weird and abstract productivity. All this reaction against the transplanting of surrealism in Greece caused the so called "surrealist scandal", one of the biggest scandals in Greek letters.
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