Xefludas, Stelios

Stelios (Stilianus) Ksefludas was born in Amfissa (according to other sources in the nearby village of Kastellia ^[1] ) in 1902 (according to other sources in 1901 ^[2] ). Ksefludas began his philological education at the University of Athens and in the period 1928-1930 completed his education in Paris . In 1930 he moved to the capital of Macedonia, the city of Thessaloniki , to work as a teacher. In the same year he published his first book, Notebooks by Pavlos Fotinos , which was accepted by critics as a representative and first example of the technique known as the “internal monologue” ^[3] . An incoherent, if nonexistent plot, continuous and uncontrolled recording of thoughts and memories with their own course, distancing from the technique of the “bourgeois novel” that cultivated the Athenian “generation of the 30s” - characteristics that highlight the latest letter, which is reflected in the book of Xefludas, with a thematic material from the Parisian period of his life.

Ksefludas naturalized as a prose writer, of those who cultivated the narrative technique of the “internal monologue”. Two years later, in 1932, the Macedonian Days ( Μακεδονικές Ημέρες ) magazine was published in Thessaloniki, on the pages of which even more representative, but also remarkable, examples of the writing of this technique began to be published. Ksefludas became one of the main employees of the magazine. In the same year (1932), he published his second book, entitled The Inner Symphony , where narration intertwines consciousness and subconsciousness, while the flow of poetic language and manifested sensitivity make this book one of the writer's best achievements. From April 1936 to 1940, Ksefludas headed the literary magazine Olimpo , the publication of which was sponsored by the Italian state. Initially, the magazine presented works of Italian poetry and literature, in subsequent issues of the magazine Italian poems were published, which Ksefludas himself translated into Greek. In a similar atmosphere of memories, the next two books of Xefludas were written - Eve ( Εύα 1934) and Circle ( Κύκλος 1940). During the period of the Greek-Italian war (1940-1941), victorious for the Greek weapons, the writer fought at the front as an officer. The experience of the war left deep traces and became the thematic material for his post-war books People of Myth (1944) ^[4] and, in part, for the book “ Odyssey without Ithaki ” ( Οδυσσέας χωρίς Ιθάκη 1957), which received the Second State Prize for the novel in 1958 . “Novels” followed (the term is put in quotation marks due to the writer's technical preferences) “You, Mr. X, and the little prince” ( Εσύ ο κύριος Χ κι ένας μικρός πρίγκιπας 1960, First State Prize), “Days in the Dark” ( Μέσες σκοτάδι 1982). Over time, Ksefludas changed the subject, began to draw it from modern experience and events, which the writer, to some extent, tried to combine with the narrative technique adopted by him. Although his later books may be of greater interest to the average reader, his pre-war works, with their melancholy and closed character, have a special charm. Stelios Ksefludas also wrote essays Nirvanas , Christomanos et al. (1953), Modern Greek novel (in French, 1953), Modern novel (1955) ^[5] . The writer died of a heart attack on November 27, 1984 ^{[6] [7]} .

• Notebooks of Pavlos Fotinos ( Τα τετράδια του Παύλου Φωτεινού 1930)
• Inner Symphony ( Εσωτερική συμφωνία 1932)
• Eve ( Εύα 1934)
• Circle ( Κύκλος 1940)
• People of Myth ( Άνθρωποι του μύθου 1944)
• Odyssey without Ithaca ( Οδυσσέας χωρίς Ιθάκη 1957)
• “You, Mr. X, and the little prince” ( Εσύ ο κύριος Χ κι ένας μικρός πρίγκιπας 1960, First State Prize of the novel)
• Nirvanas , Christomanos and others ( Νιρβάνας, Χρηστομάνος και άλλοι 1953)
• Today's novel ( Το σύγχρονο μυθιστόρημα 1955)
• Travel ( Ταξιδιωτικά 1956)

The Castellia Literary Society annually organizes a story contest named after Stelios Ksefludas ^[8] .

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1. ↑ Στέλιος Ξεφλούδας: Ένας μεγάλος άγνωστος Δρόμος της Αριστεράς
2. ↑ Πο.Θ.Ε.Γ
3. ↑ : BiblioNet: Ξεφλούδας, Στέλιος, 1901-1984
4. ↑ Σ. Ξεφλούδας, Άνθρωποι του μύθου
5. ↑ Εθνικό Κέντρο Βιβλίου / Από το 18ο αιώνα μέχρι το 1935
6. ↑ Απογευματινή, Πέθανε χθες ο συγγραφέας Στ. Ξεφλούδας, 11/28/1984.
7. ↑ Β 'Διαγωνισμός "Στέλιος Ξεφλούδας": Οι 12 ιστορίες που ξεχώρισαν ( unspecified ) (link not available) . Date of treatment July 11, 2015. Archived July 13, 2016.
8. ↑ Ημερολόγιο ενός πατέρα: Δ Διαγωνισμός Διηγήματος Στέλιος Ξεφλούδας: "Ο Ξένος"