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The history of the book

A fragmentary, poetic text in a second revised edition, with the addition of a poem.
The book was first published in 1994, in the poetry series of Ikaros Publications, edited by Evgenios Aranitsis. It is a fragmentary, inner journey through the realms of the city and memory. As Thanos Stathopoulos noted in a conversation with the poet Ilias Lagios, speaking about the book |Anti, issue 571, 17 February 1995|, ‘…I would say it is a fragmentary text. The fragments resemble notes and broken stories. In a very specific way, each fragment is an extension of the previous one, and it has all been written together with this logic, like a natural flow of breaths. A fragmented story, as I call it, is not a story. It is the destruction of the story. Let’s say: the remnants of the story. In the style of a story, a note or an incident, I enter the realm of poetry or the paradoxical, and conversely: in the style of a verse, a poem, I enter the realm of history…’. The second revised edition is published with the addition of a poem.
  • Author Thanos Stathopoulos
  • Text editing Kyriakos Margaritis
  • Pages: 40
  • ISBN: 978-960-7233-73-8
  • Publication: 1994
  • Dimensions: 13 Χ 20
  • Categories: Literature, Books, Poetry

Thanos Stathopoulos

Thanos Stathopoulos was born in Athens in 1963.
He has published the following books: Theme, Erato 1985, The History of Music, Ikaros 1994, Playback, Gavriilidis 2003, A Pile of Language, Gavriilidis 2007, The Automatic, Gavriilidis 2013, La folie, Ikaros 2015, The Hour, Ikaros 2018, Introduction to the Day, Ikaros 2021, The Adaptation of Myself at 06:30, Ikaros 2023. From 1999 to the present day, he has worked as a producer on ERA’s Third Programme.

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