In this study, which features a foreword by Yannis Dallas, the author examines the theme of Christmas in the poetry of Miltos Sachtooris. The study notes, first and foremost, that Christmas, and everything associated with this festival, does not appear in Sachtooris’s poetry as the familiar religious, social and personal celebration of joy, but is transformed into a celebration of death, when the historical context is one of horror and death for humanity and the society in which it lives. Based on this observation, the author then examines the specific causes of this transformation of Christmas in Sahoutis’s poetry, its scope, as well as its intensity and depth. Finally, he examines Sachtouris’s proposal for overcoming this dominance of terror, despair and death on a historical, social and religious level: this overcoming of terror and death lies, according to the perspective of Sachtouris’s poetry, in the redemptive mediation of art, poetry and the creator-poet himself.
- Pages: 104
- ISBN: 978-960-8399-71-6
- Publication: 2008
- Dimensions: 13 x 21
- Categories: Books, Essays & Thought, Δοκίμιο
Dimitris Lambrellis
Dimitris Lambrellis was born in Athens; his family origins lie in Asia Minor and Lesbos. He studied Philosophy on a scholarship at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the University of Thessaloniki and the University of Pittsburgh (USA). Whilst working on his doctoral thesis on Nietzsche, he was actively involved in psychoanalysis. He is a professor of philosophy at Panteion University. He has published philosophical studies and articles in Greece and abroad, and has participated in philosophical conferences.
His interests focus on the fields of philosophical anthropology, aesthetics and social philosophy. His poems, as well as his contributions relating to the study and criticism of literature, have been published in a number of literary journals and anthologies.
He is a member of the Hellenic Ornithological Society and also sits on the Scientific Council of the Chamber of Environment and Sustainability. As a professor of philosophy at Panteion University, he also engages with issues of ecological philosophy. He has been involved in photography for twenty years, but for the last ten years he has focused his interest exclusively on nature photography. He is a member of the Hellenic Photographic Society, has participated in group photography exhibitions and has received awards.
