Kostas Krystallis

Kostas Krystallis or Kroustallis (Greek Κώστας Κρυστάλλης or Κρουστάλλης; * 1868 in Syrrako, † April 22, 1894 in Arta ) was a Greek poet and writer of the New Athenian school.

Life

The poet was as Kostas Kroustallis in a " wlachischen " mountain village called Syrrako ( Συρράκο or Σιράκο ) born in the Pindus Mountains in Epirus, where he grew up to the age of twelve. From 1880 he attended the famous Sosimäa School ( Ζωσιμαία Σχολή ) in Ioannina, where his father Dimitrios Kroustallis operated a wholesale company. While still a student, he was in 1886 with his first patriotic ' poem The Shadow of Hades ( Αι σκιαί του Άδου ) is known, which focuses on the events, Greek revolution ' moved from 1821 and his expulsion by the Ottoman rule in northern Greece still reigning earned. He fled to Athens Christmas 1888, during an Ottoman court sentenced him in absentia to twenty-five years of exile. In Athens, he changed his family name from Kroustallis in Krystallis.

The harsh living conditions in Athens, he was no match for health in the long run. He initially worked in the printing of the publisher Phexi ( Φέξη ), and later with an encyclopedic Publishing and briefly as editor of the magazine Evdomas ( Εβδομάς ' week ' ), and finally as an employee of the Greek railways. At the same time at night he worked on the collection of historic and ethnographic material and at his poetic work. When he became ill with tuberculosis, he moved with the hope of relief to Kerkyra. As his condition worsened, however, further, he went to his sister to Arta, where he died a few days later on 22 April 1894 aged 26 years.

Kostis Palamas side ( Κωστής Παλαμάς ) Kostas Krystallis is considered one of the most important representatives of the so-called Generation of 1880 and heard with this and his contemporaries Georgios Drosinis and Nikos Kambas to the New Athens School. He contributed with his studies and his poetic work decisively to that the modern Greek vernacular against the classicizing high-level language prevailed in the literature.

The Greek Ministry of Culture declared the year 1994 " Kostas - Krystallis - year."

From Michalis Pera This ( Μιχάλης Περάνθης ) there under the title The Great Shepherd ( Ο Τσέλιγκας ) a biography of Kostas Krystallis in the form of a historical novel.

Works

His first poems Shades of Hades ( ' Αι Σκιαί του Άδου, ​​1886) and The Monk from Messolonghi Pass ( Καλόγηρος της Κλεισούρας Μεσολογγίου, 1890) had epic character and were influenced by the works of the Greek poet Aristotelis Balaoritis ( Αριστοτέλης Βαλαωρίτης ). With his next two collections of poetry, he then turned to the New Athens School. These works are strongly influenced by the poetry of Greek folk music and folklore themes. In 1891 his collection of poems appeared Rural ( Αγροτικά ). With 1893 following collection of songs of the village and of the corral ( Τραγούδια του Χωριού και της Στάνης, 1893), he acquired his name as a defender and promoter of the Greek vernacular ( Dimotiki ) and the folk poetry in the Greek language dispute. 1891 also appeared the Study The Vlachs of Pindus ( Οι Βλάχοι της Πίνδου ). 1894 was followed by prose pieces ' ( Πεζογραφήματα ), swallows ( Χελιδόνες ) and others.

Expenditure

• Κώστα Δ. Κρυστάλλη, Τα Άπαντα Μου. Published by the brother. Publisher Dodona in 1952 and 1965 -. " Kostas D. Krystallis, complete works "