Last night at Beton7 Art Radio we talked with artist Christos Antonaropoulos about Andrea’s Embirikos book – The Great Eastern.

I quote for Wikipedia:

Megas Anatolikos

Arguably, the most significant and influential work by Embirikos is Megas Anatolikos. The poet dedicated many years of work to this particularly long novel, that consists of more than one hundred chapters. In this work, Embirikos narrates the first trip of the ocean liner Great Eastern (Μέγας Ἀνατολικός) from England to America. Embirikos describes the Great Eastern as a hedonic vessel, where the multitude of the passengers enjoy love without and beyond limits. During the ten-day trip (an allusion to the Decameron) they discover a new form of happiness and innocence. For this work, Odysseas Elytis called Embirikos “a visionary and a prophet”.

Important information about Andreas Embirikos you can also find here

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