Andreas Embirikos

Andreas Embirikos, born on 2 September 1901 in Brăila, Romania, the son of a Greek shipowner and politician, grew up in Syros and then in Athens. He left the University of Athens for Lausanne, studied at King's College London, and lived in Paris from 1926 to 1931, where he frequented Breton and the Surrealists and trained as a psychoanalyst under René Laforgue. Back in Greece, he was from 1935 to 1951 the first to practise psychoanalysis there. Taken hostage by the secret police of the armed left in December 1944, he escaped on the way. He died in Kifissia on 3 August 1975.

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• PoetryΥψικάμινοςAndreas Embirikos · 1935not translated into EnglishLiterature