Kyriakos Mitsotakis for the book of Dionysis Savvopoulos: “I’m having trouble letting it out of my hands”

One in social media different from the others made today (18.01.2020) the Prime Minister. As Kyriakos Mitsotakis says, his post is not about politics, but the book of Dionysis Savvopoulos “Why the years run in bulk” which has elements of autobiographicals of the great trovadour and has excited him. CORVERSE In detail the PM’s post: “My post today is not about politics but about a book that I started reading these days, first on the plane and then, late at night, at home, and I often have trouble letting it go. Its title: “Why the years run in bulk”. It was written by our great singer Dionysis Savvopoulos. The book has an autobiographical character and for many of us who love the songs of Savvopoulos reveals the world in which they were born. Reading the stories of his youth, in Thessaloniki in the early 1960s and then in Athens, where he came down with the famous “Fortigo”, his capture and torture from the junta and then hitchhiking trips to Europe, you collect the agony and dreams of the anxious young people of his time for freedom and creation. Politics and politicians are not the protagonists of this book, covering an 80-year period. However, the poets who influenced him, the great personalities of Greek music, such as Manos Hatzidakis, his close friends and important peers, such as Manos Loizos and Nikos Papazoglu, are starring. But many people who helped him played a crucial role in his life and shared the route with him. His insistence on “talking” through the pages of the book with his close people, those who left and those who continue with him, is perhaps the element of the book that moved me most. Because we have all experienced losses and, as years pass, we stand out, I believe, what is truly important.”