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Aris Marangopoulos — Wikipedia (en)

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Aris Marangopoulos (Greek: Άρης Μαραγκόπουλος, translit. Maragkopoulos; b. Athens, 1948) is a Greek author, literary critic and translator. He studied History and Archaeology at the University of Athens, History of Art and Archaeology at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. Marangopoulos is a politically committed intellectual (but with no political adherence to any particular party) who has been writing since the early eighties. Some of his older fiction cult books deal with the Utopian idea of communal love as a means of civil disobedience but those more recent and more widely read deal with a contemporary social context, pictured through known historic facts of political disobedience against state impingement of civil rights. In seeming contrast to that realist predilection his literary style, though, should not be defined as purely realistic. A writer who, in some of his older books, has adopted the modernist form of a poème en prose A.M. rather stands for an elective modernist style. Vassilis Vassilikos, author of the novel Z, has written for Marangopoulos' politically engaged 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» His more widely read novel so far (and one of his best as most critics agree), The Slap-tree, is a story that reviews post-war Greece through the eyes of a foreign woman, a Welsh teacher who during WW II fell in love with a young Greek communist and thereafter put every possible effort to free him from an incarceration of 17 years (a true story which made to the first page of international media in the sixties). Apart from its literary merits the story has ignited a certain discussion and dispute in Greece as to the possible ways of narrating historic facts in literature. His «French» novel Paul et Laura, tableau d’après nature (Topos books 2017) is inspired by the lives of the intellectual activist Paul Lafargue (1842-1911, best known for his polemic essay The Right To Be Lazy) and his wife Laura Marx (1845-1911). The mythical life of these two characters who at their old age (Paul 69, Laura 66) decided to die together by a suicide pact is painted in this novel as a concave mirror reflecting the tumultuous development of the European society in the second half of 19th and the beginnings of the 20th century. The novel is considered by all critics to be the opus magnum of the author: See e.g. A. Sainis's review (in Efimerida Syntakton 19.02.17), Efi Giannopoulou's (in Epochi, 24.01.17), Maria Moira's (in Aygi of Sunday, 19.03.17) (See more reviews in Greek and English here). This last critic has noted on account of this book: «This daring narrative by Aris Maragkopoulos dips decisively

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Wikidata Q4790839: «Greek prose writer, literary critic, translator» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4790839
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