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Aris Marangopoulos (b. Athens, 1948) is a Greek author, literary critic and translator. He studied History and Archeology at the University of Athens, History of Art and Archeology at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. He is one of the few modernist / postmodernist writers of prose in Greece and has been writing since the early eighties.〔http://www.toposbooks.gr/contents/eng/writerseng.php?wid=15〕 Some of his older novels deal with the Utopian idea of communal love as a means of civil disobedience but those more widely read refer to a contemporary social context, presented through well-known historic attempts of civil disobedience against state arbitrariness. In seeming contrast to that realist predilection his style, though, should not be defined as realistic. He clearly stands for an elective modernist style which in some books even takes the form of a ''poème en prose''. Vassilis Vassilikos, author of the novel ''Z'', has written for Marangopoulos' politically engaged novel ''Obsession with Spring'':〔Terrorism in Greece is the subject of the novel. A critic, Dimosthenis Kourtovik, wrote in his review for the book: «The novel constitutes a political criticism of terrorism, ''the first essential criticism to appear in Greek literature''» (In ''Ta Nea'', March 10, 2007).〕 «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»〔Vassilis Vassilikos, in ''To Vima'', November 19, 2006〕 His best novel so far (and consequently more widely read) as most critics agree,〔See e.g. Titika Dimitroulia's review (in ''Kathimerini'', January 27, 2013) , Dimosthenis Kourtovik's (in ''Ta Nea'', December 29, 2012) et alias.〕 ''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).〔http://www.toposbooks.gr/contents/eng/books_details_eng.php?nid=233〕 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. Marangopoulos is considered an authority on James Joyce in Greece.〔See: i. Current James Joyce Checklist (in «James Joyce Quarterly» (Vol. 34, No 3, Spring 1997, p. 327). ii. «James Joyce Newestlatter» (October 1997, pp. 3, 7). iii. ''The reception of James Joyce in Europe'', edited by Geert Lernout and Wim Van Mierlo, Continuum 2004, Vol. I, Chapter 28, pp. 455, 466, 467 and passim. In pages 467-68 the critical text reads among other things: «The novelist Aris Marangopoulos has contributed greatly to the understanding of Joyce's work (in Greece)».〕 He has written three books and many articles on the matter.〔"A man’s portrait of the artist and History", in «Kathimerini/International Herald Tribune» (May 27, 1999)〕 His most important study, ''Ulysses, A reader's guide'' is principally an attempt to explain James Joyce's ''Ulysses'' through affinities to its Homeric counterpart, the ''Odyssey'', – affinities clearly exposed for the reader, in richly documented text. Exegetic suggestions in response to central issues of the Joycean critical literature are also seriously treated in the volume – documented as they are in a thorough textual and intertextual analysis of the original.〔See for critical acclaim on ''Ulysses, A reader's guide'' : Giorgos Aristinos, in ''To Vima'', October 14, 2001 and Argyro Mantoglou in ''Eleftherotypia'', November 23, 2001〕 His Joycean studies have influenced his critical reading of Greek modern and contemporary prose: his writings over the years ask for a total re-mapping of the reception of literature in Greece.〔http://pandoxeio.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/marangopoulos and in: Τασούλα Τσιλιμένη & Μαρίτα Παπαρούση, ''Η τέχνη της μυθοπλασίας και της δημιουργικής γραφής'' (The art of fiction and creative writing), Epikentro publications, 2010, Part I, "A meta-realist realism", p.33-38.〕 ---- He has served for two consecutive terms as Secretary Executive of the Hellenic Authors' Society. His novel ''Love, Gardens, Ingratitude'' has been translated into Serbian, his ''Obsession with Spring'' into Turkish, his short novel ''Nostalgic Clone'' into English〔''The Dedalus Book of Greek Fantasy'', ed. and trans. by D. Connolly, 2004〕 and various texts and articles into English, French, Turkish and Serbian. ==Works== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aris Marangopoulos」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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