Émergence d’élites et différends idéologiques

Abstract

It is true that Theotokas’ writing does not escape the didactic spirit; we can therefore consider the fiction of his novels as a conceptual reconstruction of a world in search of an ideal society.With Argo, the writer shows that the design of the elite as a group of intellectuals in a changing society reaches his limits. At the same time, in Daimonio he seems to confirm seems to confirm the view that the closed urban world is severed from reality. In contrast with Leonis, Theotokas proposes as a solution the return to the "individual" who from now on carries the hope for the success of the society and the world.Theotokas, in response to the absolute power of the objective world (the objectivism), according to the classification of historical materialism, proposes a world that is autonomous and independent from material needs, the world of spirit. Within this world, at a more secret level, he places the world of the individual.We propose to consider the work of Georges Theotokas beyond political disputes that criticism has strongly focused on, turning him into a representative of the conservative class. Without intending to underestimate the distance that the writer kept from the lower class, we believe that the society as it emerges through the intertext of his work should not necessarily be seen as an attempt to establish a bourgeoisie/middle class who fights the Marxist currents.

Keywords

• Theotokas Yiorgos (1905-1966)
• elites
• Greece
• Twentieth century
• Greek literature