Title: T.K. Papatsonis: Cold War Catholic?
Source document: Neograeca Bohemica. 2024, vol. 24, iss. [1], pp. 47-60
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47-60
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ISSN1803-6414 (print)2694-913x (online)
Persistent identifier (DOI): https://doi.org/10.5817/NGB2024-24-4
Stable URL (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.81884
Type: Article
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License: CC BY-SA 4.0 International
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Abstract(s)
The tragic period of the Civil War and Cold War in Greece generated much poetry of lasting value, mostly from the Left . The poet T. K. Papatsonis (1895–1976), a fi gure with (among Greek poets) an idiosyncratic political and religious perspective, produced a response of quite a diff erent kind: an 'instant poem' written ira et studio as soon as the show trial of the Hungarian Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty (1949) was concluded. The present discussion provides a reading of Papatsonis' unusual poem within its Cold War context, with attention to its allegiances and its possible contradictions.
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