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Greek Returns: The Poetry of Nikos Karouzos
- Nick Skiadopoulos (author)
Chapter of: continent. Year 1: A Selection of Issues 1.1–1.4(pp. 32–39)
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| Title | Greek Returns |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | The Poetry of Nikos Karouzos |
| Contributor | Nick Skiadopoulos (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0016.1.03 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/continent-year-1/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| Copyright | Skiadopoulos, Nick |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2012-12-12 |
| Long abstract | Nikos Karouzos had a communist teacher for a father and an orthodox priest for a grandfather. From his four years up to his high school gradua-tion he was incessantly educated, reading the entire private library of his granddad, comprising mainly the Orthodox Church Fathers and the an-cient classics. Later on in his life he sold the library for money, only to buy a little more time before he went broke again. Selling his only remaining capital for a few thousand drachmas, Karouzos traded not simply life, but language for poetry. What twisted type of economy upholds this very decision? Can we speak of a certain investment, with specific returns? “I am talking about the fate of Lazarus: at once pauper and saved.” Nowadays – and ridiculously recently – we are more than apt to speak of a certain insouciance pertaining to the Greek form of expenditure: expendi-ture without any type of investment. This imprudent stance still conjures a “capital punishment”: each time, at each act of excess what is at stake is a caput, a head – the haunting dead metaphor for capital. Decapitation, as a road of no return, implies that capital is the condition for the possibility of returns – at least in this life. In that sense, the argument against imprudent economic conduct is not itself economic, but ethical if not ontological – Max Weber being our witness |
| Page range | pp. 32–39 |
| Print length | 8 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |