“…things so light that only you and I notice them,” writes Marcel Proust somewhere in In Search of Lost Time, and it is one of the key phrases that build this small state of seventeen short stories by Antonis Georgiou. A multifaceted, tangible collection, charged with emotion that arises effortlessly from associative discourse, close to the human body, sprouting from the narrator’s spiritual soil — readings, travels, hearings— but also watered by love, as the only cognitive tool for the weakness and pain of those around us. Can a loving gaze teach you something about your “neighbor” and, by extension, about yourself, this terra incognita that you have not dared to explore with your own hands? Against the backdrop of the tumultuous narrative, the reader hears the anguish of the search, as in Heraclitus’ phrase edizisamen emetou, I sought myself, I sought to find myself. He discerns the deep insight into the psyche of Georgios’ characters and sees in the author’s career, from his first steps in the 1990s to the present day, the achievement of stripping expression of descriptions and feelings. It is as if he now writes more with his heart than with his pen.

To Rodakio, 2022, 160 p.