Konstantinos Heliopoulos for Nikos Kachtitsis (an interview)
Journal: Kathedra of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
Year: 2020

The author Nikos Kachtitsis (1926–1970) is one of the leading representatives of Modern Greek literary epistolography. In most of his letters he expresses his passion for writing. He usually forms a variety of identities of dubious truthfulness, moving between truth and lie, document and fabrication. As in his literature, he often writes stories where he seems to replace truth with its spectrum. This interview attempts to explore this practice in 135 letters addressed to his close friend, the po