Essays

In this collection of essays, Christos Malevitsis leads the reader to places of spiritual wakefulness with lyricism and poetry, opposing the pain of ephemeral and finite life with the ephemerality of the spirit and the ability of the soul to maintain its connection with the eternal. In the face of the mysterious ocean of ignorance, the silent duty of human presence in the world is to spend its ephemeral existence keeping the candle of existence lit for as long as it shines: "You keep your ephemerality. Until the other comes. He will light his candle from your candle. He will sit on your watchtower as you depart. Without changing a word."

(Urania Foundation Award, 1990)

The Enlightenment of Man

In these essays, Christos Malevitsis exposes the agonizing testimony of the historical moment with bright perplexed reflection and penetrating insight. In the era of violence, lawlessness, and ignorance, in the era of humanity's suspicious silence, when no one speaks anymore about the essential, man is called upon to preserve the memory of light. To realize the abyss's vertigo, to confront the night of forgetfulness, looking forward to the day of being that floods the soul with divine abundance. To seek the ultimate meaning that leads to the light of transcendence.

(Greek Pen Club Essay Award, 1996)