Modernism in modern greek literature
The article is devoted to examining the background to the literary phenomenon of Greek modernism. Drawing upon researches, carried out by foreign scientists specializing in Neo-Hellenic Studies - Mario Vitti, Roderick Beaton, Alexandros Argyriou - special aspects of Modernist movements found in Modern Greek literature such as Futurism and Surrealism are analysed. It is pointed out that of all the Modernist movements only Surrealism flourished in Greece. Futurism can only be found in a few unimportant poems and Dadaism made no appearance in Greek literature. The heyday of modernism in Greece accounts for the so-called "generation of the 30's" - a constellation of Greek modernists whose works are imbued with fresh sentiments. The main feature of their poetry is introduction offree verse, as well as first attempts in Surrealism, while elements of urban fiction penetrate into prose and some modernist tendencies like internal monologue appear (George Seferis, Elytis Odysseas, Andreas Embirikos, Nikos Engonopoulos). Especially noteworthy is the work of writers of "Thessaloniki's school" with the center in the city of Thessaloniki and their magazine "Macedonian Day" founded in 1932. They did not tend to depict reality in detail at all but favored experimentation turned towards the inner world, which were inherent in European modernism of the 1920s (Alkiviadis Giannopoulos, Georgios Delios, Stelios Ksefludas, Nikos Gabriel Pendzikis). Based on studies of contemporary Ukrainian Hellenists (Nina Klimenko, Andrey Savenko, Liliya Banach, Victoria Chelpan), the article provides an overview the current state of the issue exploration, specifies the major manifestations of modernism in the work of contemporary Greek authors, revealing that their most favorite modernist literary techniques are "stream of consciousness" and "automatic writing"; prospects for further research are outlined.