The Beggar

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The Beggar

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Greek literature
Demoticism and folklorism, 1880–1922
The novel O zitiános (1896; The Beggar), by Andréas Karkavítsas, satirically depicts the economic and cultural deprivation of the rural population. From about 1910 this critical attitude is further reflected in the prose writing of Konstantínos Chatzópoulos and Konstantínos Theotókis. Meanwhile Grigórios Xenópoulos wrote novels with an urban setting and…
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The novel O zitiános (1896; The Beggar), by Andréas Karkavítsas, satirically depicts the economic and cultural deprivation of the rural population. From about 1910 this critical attitude is further reflected in the prose writing of Konstantínos Chatzópoulos and Konstantínos Theotókis. Meanwhile Grigórios Xenópoulos wrote novels with an urban setting and…
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