Michalis Karagatsis

Michalis Karagatsis ( / Δημήτρης Ροδόπουλος ) (1908 Athens- 14.9.1960 Pireaus) was the pen name of the important modern Greek novelist, journalist, critic and playwriter Dimitris Rodopoulos. He was born in Athens and studied jurisprudence 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

Evaluation

He was characterised as primarily prose writer of the illusory reality of persons and situations. Bold, sensual, with great imagination and having created a unique style of narration, was keenly shown off in modern greek philology. His first three novels, (Colonel Liapkin, Chimaera and Junkerman) compose a trilogy named Acclimazation under Apollo that have as protagonists foreigners, that live and act in Greece. In these, in contrary of the narrow, conservative frames of greek life, cosmopolitical sense predominate.

Books

He 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:

• Miss Nitsa ( 1929, short novel awarded by literature magazine Nea Estia)
  
• Colonel Liapkin (1933) (Ο Συνταγματάρχης Λιάπκιν)
  
• Junkerman (1939) (Γιούγκερμαν)
  
• The last days of Junkerman (1940) (Τα στερνά του Γιούγκερμαν)
  
• Lost island (1941) (Χαμένο Νησί)
  
• The ruler of Kastropyrgos (1944) (Ο Κοτζάμπασης του Καστρόπυργου)
  
• Great Sleep (1946) (Ο Μεγάλος Ύπνος)
  
• Bar Eldorado (Stage play, 1946)
  
• Blood lost and gained (1947) (Αίμα χαμένο και κερδισμένο)
  
• Carmen (Stage play, 1948)
  
• History of Greeks (nonfiction, 1952) (Η ιστορία των Ελλήνων)
  
• At God's Hands (1954)
  
• Death and Thodoros (1956) (Ο Θάνατος κι ο Θόδωρος)
  
• Yellow envelope (1957) (Ο Κίτρινος Φάκελος)
  
• Sergios and Vacchos (1959) (Σέργιος και Βάκχος)
  
• 10 (1960)
  

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