The book is nothing more than a montage of George Seferis’s diaries, following a linear narrative, so to speak, in cinematic terms.
It could be seen as an incomplete version of an autobiography of Seferis, written as the days pass, based on the subject’s own notes. Of these, only those remain which the anthologist deemed to support and illuminate the relationship between life and work, that is, between life and poetry.
In this sense, Seferis’s voice is mediated by the anthologist’s ear, based on the above framework. A voice that speaks over some forty consecutive years of the adventures of the life and writing of one of the most important poets of the twentieth century, whose life and work closely mirrored the country’s political life during some of its most dramatic moments.
Thanasis Hatzopoulos is a poet and psychoanalyst.
- Pages: 336
- ISBN: 978-960-8399-52-5
- Publication: 2007
- Dimensions: 13 x 20
- Categories: Books, Essays & Thought, Μελέτη
Thanasis Hatzopoulos
(Aliveri, Euboea, 1961) Poet, child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst [works 1986–2012: *In One’s Own Body*, *The Dormition*, *The Unlit*, *From the Dawn of Dew*, *The One Dead by Blood*, In the Sun’s Fate, Verses on the Rose (the Spanish translation was awarded the National Translation Prize in Spain in 2003), Canon, Cell (the French translation was awarded the Prix Max Jacob étranger in 2013), Anagrams in Silence, Complex and Ambiguous, No Humans’ Land – Report, Digits for Mosaic Tiles, Passage, Metope, Face with the Earth, Kiss of Life]. In 2013, he was awarded the Academy of Athens Poetry Prize (Petros Haris Foundation) for his entire body of work, and in 2014 he was named a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Republic. He also wrote the fairy tale A Little Wooden Box (2004) and the novellas The Forgotten (2014). He has translated French poets and English psychoanalysts. He edits the series ‘Writings on Psychoanalysis’ for Gavriilidis Publications.
