ABSTRACT
The act of stating assumes the burden of making understood a subject both insistent and ineffable, unknown and yet recognized by a disturbing familiarity. Words are no longer conceived illusively as simple instruments; they are cast as projections, explosions, vibrations, devices, flavours. Writing makes knowledge a festivity. Through a completely different understanding of such words as textuality, literature, and writing, Maronites was able to read Savvopoulos in 1979 without falling back on the old debates about whether or not this was literature, whether the songwriter was also a poet and, if so, of what kind. This writing, not distinguished from a reading which deals with the endless nature of textuality, reinscribes the mirror at the centre of the songs, producing out of it a fluid site, a leaking screen where life is projected, distorted, and reclaimed all at once.
