El artículo se enmarca en la elaboración creativa, artística y literaria de la obra y la personalidad
de Yannis Makriyannis. La prosa de su inquietante manuscrito ha sido considerada
elemento fundamental en la valoración e interpretación desde múltiples perspectivas. Analizamos
la función de la poesía en la relación entre tradición oral y creación literaria del autor.
This article can be inserted in the general frame of studies dealing with the creative, artistic
and literary activities, as well as with the personality of Makriyannis. The prose style in his
disturbing manuscript has been considered as a fundamental element in the assessment and
interpretation of his work from manifold perspectives. We analyse the function attributed
to poetry in the particular relationship between oral tradition and authorial literary creation.
