Konstantinos Heliopoulos for Nikos Kachtitsis (an interview)

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 poet and painter George Pavlopoulos. The late psychiatrist and writer Konstantinos Heliopoulos, the only friend of both Kachtitsis’ and Pavlopoulos’ who was still alive at the time of the interview (2014), is the ideal person who can help us validate the liability of the author’s letters. Among other things. the interview highlights the personality of Nikos Kachtitsis, the experiences that decisively influenced his work, his labyrinthine frame of mind, thus adding important information about the author and his literature