Mathios Paskalis, " a man who died and did not die " (G. Seferis, Six nights on the Acropolis, 1974: 21) is a pseudonym of George Seferis inspired by the French film version of The late Mattia Pascal [Il fu Mattia Pascal, 1904] by Luigi Pirandello. Pirandello’s Pascal gets a second chance after his alleged death to start a new life, in a new place, under the guise of a new name. Seferis used this name – among others, like Stratis Thalassinos - abundandly during his time in exile (1941-1944), where he was part of the entourage of the Greek government in Crete, Egypt, South Africa and Italy. What kind of texts decides Seferis to subscribe with the pseudonym " Mathios Paskalis " ? What is the role of pseudonyms and authorial mystification during wartime (and exile)? What status has ludic poetry in that context and how will the group of the British so-called " Cairo-poets " and their periodical Personal Landscape (1942-1945) form the literary expression of Greeks in exile (like George Seferis or Elie Papadimitriou)? These and other questions will be the subject of my proposed research.