Distillation of experience and wisdom, her word Elenis Glikatzis-Arveler it reaches us with consolation, hope. A new book “It’s from me…” (posted by Pataki) this is a conversation with a journalist and a writer Maki Provatas And Efi Vasilopoulouhead of the European Delphic Center, for everything that can have meaning, value, weight, joy and desire.

This long interview in the genre of books revealing intimate thoughts, memories and descriptions, like the obstetrical method of agreed autobiography, has important advantages in this case. FirstlyEleni Glikatsis-Arveler, liberated and sincere, speaks not only about her life, but also about all life’s problems because of her age, realistically and philosophically. Secondly, reveals his poems to us (“Account” is read with a mental image of an olive branch or laurel wreath). AND Thirdly, makes us partakers of a way of seeing: “Discipline in man is very important and very difficult. But the main question: Discipline in what? And, let’s say, you understand what you need to be disciplined in – what sacrifices are you ready to make for this? Discipline means a series of sacrifices, and therefore some endure it, while others do not.

Eleni Glikatsi-Arveler speaks solidly and seems to hear the familiar timbre of her voice. “If I could remove one flaw from Greek, it would be ‘I’,” we read. Her speech flows, and there are moments when you want to stop and reread the Doric passages of her thoughts. Answering the question about “where does the soul go after death”, Eleni Glikatsi-Arveler concludes: “I came to the conclusion that while you are alive, you pass the baton to some people, and this baton is the soul. Well, you’re never alone in that sense.” She has a way of summarizing the weight and beauty of life and if, on the one hand, she talks about how she feels looking at the horizon in the sea, then the next moment she can talk about history, memory, loss, her career, her partner. life, childhood in Byron, Resistance, Eleftherios Venizelos, Sorbonne, Byzantium, Delphi European Center.

The poetic side of Eleni Glikatsi-Arveler came as a surprise, as the publication also included 10 of her unpublished poems. With an aura of holiness of life experience and a deep connection with the Greek language, her poems approach the mystery of man. We can say that there is a gift in what he says. The conquest of the economy that gives you thought and experience.

M. Alexander

Another element that stands out are the references to the tomb of Alexander the Great. “Now I have many arguments,” he says, “which lead me to believe that Alexander the Great is buried in the large royal tomb of Vergina, and I believe that I will be acquitted, but after death.” What he says at the end of the interview is impressive: “As a legacy, I would like them to remember that I was convinced that Alexander the Great was buried in Vergina, and not his father, Philip II.”

However, the essence of this book, which brings us closer to a thousand and two stimuli for reflection, is a life with meaning. I am in human society. Constant striving for the higher and more complex. Learning history, but also realizing what we share.

“Homeland is emotions, it is a place where your memories and emotions are stored,” says Eleni Glikatsi-Arveler. “The motherland is our common interests, “we”, which are multifaceted and, of course, include not only people with whom you are compatriots, but also those with whom we are concerned about the same thing.”

“Check”

Words from Eleni Glikatzis-Arveler’s poem “Accounting”: Among the things I keep Spetsian cloth, / bread still warm from the yeast loaf, / an old harmonica and lantern, / on which Tsitsani played in my tavern in my neighborhood.

A basket of grapes with peaches and figs, / a rosemary root, a pot for basil, / a boat that once plowed the Saronicos, / I leave the child in memory and as a dowry.