Summary:
This thesis is an intersectional study of Dimitris Dimitriadis’ literary and theatrical works, focusing on transgression as a product of literary influences, corporeality, and historical context. Influenced by Giorgos Cheimonas, Georges Bataille, Jean Genet, and Maurice Blanchot, Dimitriadis’ work seems to belong to an anti-humanist genealogy, which produces literature through transgression, waste, and loss. Εxamined through the lens of intersectionality (how class, gender, sexuality, and national identity play a role in the formation of the writer’s poetics), Dimitriadis’ work challenges the foundations of logo-centric tradition and problematises the socio-political conditions and the social hierarchies under which it emerges. His work seems to communicate a Dionysian and carnivalesque memory, transformed vastly in the western urban imaginary of ‘Modernity.’ Furthermore, his writings appear to communicate a social surplus, related to the human body in recent times, traveling through a long tradition of artistic movements, such as Expressionism and Modernism.
