Introductory study, chronology and translation by Tudor DINU. 2011, 352 p., 6.5 E
ISBN 978-973-8319-69-1
Published in the „The Library of Neo-Hellenic Literature” Collection, the book offers the Romanian readers the opportunity of becoming acquainted with the work of one of the founders and major representative of the surrealistic movement in Greece. Alongside Odysseas Elytis and Andreas Embirikos, Nikos Engonopoulos (1907–1985), a remarkable painter and writer, made an important contribution to the renewal of the Greek poetry and its attuning to the European literature. The volume comprises a rich selection, from the first collections (Do Not Distract the Driver and The Clavicembalos of Silence), in which he proved to be a faithful promoter of surrealism, to Bolivar, a poem dedicated to freedom, and to the later poems in which a return to tradition is visible. Tudor Dinu, head of the Department of Neo-Hellenic Studies in the Faculty of Philology of the University of Bucharest, is the translator and also the author of an ample study in which he presents the main stages of the poet’s work, and of an useful chronology.