Akolouthontas to ploio tou Odussea

Summary

To 1912 o omiristis Victor Berard (1864-1931) kalese ton megalo fotografo tou ellinikou topiou Fred Boissonnas (1858-1946) na taxidepsoun sta meri ap' opou perase o Odusseas kai na anagnorisoun kai na apotuposoun fotografika ta omirika topia. Oi leptomereies tou taxidiou autou anaferontai stous prologous tou bibliou. Apotelesma einai autos o tomos me tis 165 thaumasies fotografies tou Boissonnas (epilogi apo chiliades arnitika se plakes gualiou), pou apokaluptei ena mesogeiako topio ton archon tou aiona, tora pia toso allagmeno oso den eiche allaxei apo ta chronia tou Omirou. To leukoma auto, ektos apo tin archaiologiki axia tou, apotelei to idio ena poiima kai odigei ton anagnosti s' ena allo nostalgiko omiriko taxidi. Mporei oi theories kai oi tautiseis tou Victor Berard, pou kuriarchisan gia polla chronia kai epireasan genies omiriston, na amfisbitountai simera kai na epikaluptontai apo alles theories, kai o idios o Berard na apotelei ki autos pleon meros tou omirikou zitimatos, mporei oi Lotofagoi na min einai stin Tzermpa i i spilia tou Kuklopa sto Paouzilipo, omos i goiteia kai i poiisi ton eikonon paramenei kai mas taxideuei. Akolouthontas ton Strabona, pou elege oti "den einai omiriko na oikodomeis mataies teratologies choris katholou na tis themelioneis stin alitheia", o Berard egrafe: "I Odusseia den einai mia apli sunarmologisi thrulon: einai ena geografiko ntokoumento, apeikonisi poiitiki alla ochi paramorfotiki mias sugkekrimenis Mesogeiou, pou eiche tis nausiploikes tis sunitheies, tis theories tis gia ton kosmo kai gia ti zoi ton nautikon, ti glossa tis, tis Odigies pros nautillomenous kai to emporio tis. Antistoicha, i idia auti Mesogeios, an tin exereunisoume, mas dinei tin exigisi ton odusseiakon peripeteion sto sunolo tous kai stis leptomereies: o Odusseas den taxideuei mesa stin katachnia tou thrulou, se topous fantastikous· apo kabo se kabo, apo nisi se nisi, parapleei tis aktes opou idi taxieuan oi emporoi tis Sidonos". I parousa ekdosi anaparagei fotolithografika tin proti galliki ekdosi tou bibliou me ton titlo "Dans le sillage d'Ulysse" stis ekdoseis Armand Colin to 1933.