Ricerc@Sapienza

The paper outlines the work of the poet, prose writer and performer Vassilis Amanatidis (1970-), focuses on his first two poetry books Υπνωτήριο, 1999 and Σπίτι από πάγο όλο, 2001) and attempts to highlight some of their common characteristics. The analysis of some of the two collections’ texts reveals a very strong poetic voice that, at the turn of the century, creates a poetic oeuvre in which the concept of ‘trauma’ seems to have played a leading role in both the private and the collective experience.