“This closely-woven enactment of the history of the philosophic discourse on light—its nature, its potential, its raison d’être—creates an oneiric meditation that traces the connection of  beauty to thought. Strongly atmospheric, crystalically distilled, Roubaud’s text takes one of the most charged poetic metaphors and returns it to the material world, no less charged.” from the website of Eleni Sikelianos, the translator.

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