The publisher, poet, translator, and owner of Shakespeare’s Books, George Alisanoglou, holds onto Kafka’s aphorism (“I am nothing but literature”) and presents an evening based on “The Wound and the Word” translated by Nikos Vouroutropoulos.
Joining him, the translator Ioanna Avramidou, a profound scholar of Kafka, will deliver a special presentation. Alisanoglou says: “Kafka’s inner demand for perfection in writing may never have been fulfilled, but without it, it is very doubtful that he would have managed to tell his masterful stories.
This anxiety that runs through his letters and diaries is transformed into the existential anxiety in which his heroes live, in a nightmarish environment, full of fears and threats, with caricatures of people wandering around, sometimes whispering and sometimes shouting incomprehensible words.”
Excerpts from the book will be read (in alphabetical order) by the poets:
George Alisanoglou, Eirini Vakalopoulou, Vasilis Zilakos, Elsa Korneti, Dimitra Kationi, and Dimitris Leontsakos