"The Lights Across the Street" is Christos Angelakos’s first collection of poetry. Its division into three parts: “The Black and Whites”, “The Coloured Ones”, “Portraits”, suggests that poems, too, can emerge slowly, like photographs, only in this case—that of writing—the unprinted often has greater power than the printed
He has published the novel “The Last Image” (Kedros, 1998), and a translation of Jean Starobinski’s essays, “Three Manias” (Estia, 1992).
- Pages: 80
- ISBN: 978-960-8399-59-4
- Publication: 2008
- Dimensions: 17 x 24
- Categories: Literature, Books, Poetry
Christos Angelakos
Christos Angelakos is a graduate of the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Athens. He continued his postgraduate studies at the Institute of Modern Greek Studies at the Sorbonne; the subject of his thesis, The Chest of Aris Alexandrou.
He has published the novel The Last Icon (Kedros, 1998), and a translation of Jean Starobinski’s essays, Three Manias (Estia, 1992).
He has contributed to the magazines Diavazo, Logou Harin, Entyktirio, Logothetikos Politis and the newspaper Anagnostis, publishing reviews and critiques of literary works. On ERT’s Third Programme, he presented the work of twelve well-known female poets and prose writers of the 1970s generation in a series of twelve one-hour programmes.
