Textes en exil : le théâtre de Yannis Ritsos

Yannis Ritsos’ poetry has clear, foundational, and well-studied links with the experience of the exile. His much lesser-known dramatic works share the same background, which organises though in a different, peculiar way that this article aims to present. After showing how Ritsos’ theatre often sprin...

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Main Author: Chiara Gallo
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Language:English
Published: Centre d'Études Balkaniques 2024-10-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ceb/21397
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description Yannis Ritsos’ poetry has clear, foundational, and well-studied links with the experience of the exile. His much lesser-known dramatic works share the same background, which organises though in a different, peculiar way that this article aims to present. After showing how Ritsos’ theatre often springs from a situation of internal exile, either chosen or suffered, I will follow its path to the Greek political refugees’ communities in Romania. This migration has deeply ambivalent effects: on one hand, it physically preserves Ritsos’ dramatic works, but, on the other hand, it restrains their circulation and participates in consigning them to a still lasting oblivion. Finally, I will focus on how exile related notions act on a literary level too, as major dramaturgical levers of Yannis Ritsos’ theatre.
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Textes en exil : le théâtre de Yannis Ritsos
Cahiers Balkaniques
exile
Romania
Yannis Ritsos
theatre
political refugees
title Textes en exil : le théâtre de Yannis Ritsos
title_full Textes en exil : le théâtre de Yannis Ritsos
title_fullStr Textes en exil : le théâtre de Yannis Ritsos
title_full_unstemmed Textes en exil : le théâtre de Yannis Ritsos
title_short Textes en exil : le théâtre de Yannis Ritsos
title_sort textes en exil le theatre de yannis ritsos
topic exile
Romania
Yannis Ritsos
theatre
political refugees
url https://journals.openedition.org/ceb/21397
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