Georgios Vizyenos: The Early Years; The Unique Narrative Style-The Greek Herald
AUTHOR The Greek Herald DATE April 16, 2021 CATEGORY Culture History By Marina Siskos Georges Vizyenos, novelist and poet, was born by the family name Georges Syrmas, in a destitute family environment of five children, on March the 8 th , 1849. He has left an unparalleled legacy by introducing a set of ground-breaking techniques in his writing, majorly by means of the profoundly soul-deciphering style of his novels, recognized as viscerally psychographic. His piercingly soul-searching writing style came into being and flourished roughly a generation prior to Freud. An outstanding figure of the generation of 1880, Vizyenos skilfully adopted a starkly sincere depiction of the human soul and its workings. It is only just that Vizyenos is acclaimed to be the master of ethographia , unanimously characterized as “painter of souls”, with his seemingly effortless soul-depiction of his characters, transcending simple ethnography . Georges Vizyenos was born in V...