In Astypalaia , a few days before the holidays end, was Matins read - though I had laid down their precious reading generous with Sudoku puzzles. Fortunately, there are on this beautiful island in the wind as a general store worthy of the name yet. Before the cheese display case right next to the washing bay is because that is a small frame with a very fascinating selection of books: not the usual selection of best-sellers and kiosk kitsch novels, but real literature is mixed, even with a few volumes of poetry. This came to me and was called as reason enough to finally a work of Nikos Kavvadias to be addressed: Το ημερολόγιο ενός τιμονιέρη ( The Diary of a tax man ), a collection of his early, scattered published prose and poetry.
In a few other authors, the unity of life and work is so highly as Kavvadias. He embarked immediately after school as a seaman, worked his way up, drove on it after World War II for three decades as a radio operator, the oceans, died shortly after retirement, when he would not tolerate the mainland, and he wrote about the marine, of sailors and prostitutes, about foreign countries and major ports, of wanderlust and loneliness. His (very clear) Work thus describes his life, his life is like a commentary on his work. And this is from the very beginning, even in his very first prose pieces collected in this volume.
is true there is something special, an author first of all the early reading so early work. It is exciting to retrace the development. Kavvadias' first poems are still plenty of awkward, as it were teenage poetry, but soon they will be formally rigorous and complex content - Arabic so the dense, dark Kasbah an enigmatic prostitute. The short, short story-like pieces in turn orbit from all sides of the poet's life theme that evoke fear and solitude in the depths of the Pacific plates, with wistful fascination with mythical cities and islands and spin yarns openly. The short, sometimes fragmentary form can not, however, more than a sketchy hints, what is occasionally a bit clichéd and pretentious. Helping with the classification of this reading would probably Kavvadias later writings, and it would be safe now to take profit with his main work in attack, the amendment Βάρδια ( The guard ). On the next ferry, perhaps.
Technicals: Νίκος Καββαδίας , The Diary of a helmsman . Athisafrista prose and poems. Athen, Agra 3 2009. ISBN 978-960-325-609-0. Auf Deutsch ist von Kavvadias bisher nur (anlässlich der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2001 ) " Die Wache " erschienen (Berlin, Alexander Fest 2001, ISBN 3-8286-0168-5 - zurzeit offenbar leider vergriffen ).
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