Φθινόπωρο
Κωσταντίνος Χατζόπουλος, 1917
A grown man sits by the sea and lets a single autumn unspool — childhood, first love, a sister's death — in prose that moves like light on water.
Κωσταντίνος Χατζόπουλος
1868–1920
Χατζόπουλος writes in a quiet, observant prose that stays close to the inner life of ordinary people — a man by the sea, three sisters guarding a family name, a poet in the mud of war — and lets small moments carry the weight. Start with «Φθινόπωρο» if you want the gentlest entry, or «Ο πύργος του ακροπόταμου» if you prefer a sharper look at how pride and respect can hollow out a family. Both share his patient attention to feeling and place, and neither asks more of you than to sit with them a while.
Feels like melancholy, memory and longing.
Start with Φθινόπωρο.
Hatzopoulos was a poet and critic from Agrinio who spent years in Germany; Φθινόπωρο, published in 1917, is his only completed novel and a landmark of Greek impressionist prose.
The autumn that arrives like a held breath.
Ο Στέφανος θυμάται τώρα πως έπειτα ήρθε το φθινόπωρο· ένα ήμερο φθινόπωρο με μέρες στη σειρά ασυννέφιαστες, χλιαρές και απάνεμες. Οι λόφοι άπλωναν βιολέτινοι με τ’ ανθισμένα ρείκια στις πλαγιές, πέρα οι γιαλοί αλλού μενεξεδένιοι αλλού τριανταφυλλοί, οι βράχοι σε σχήματα που άλλαζαν παράξενα κάθε στιγμή κρεμιόνταν σαν ανάεροι στα νερά, οι αμμουδιές χρυσοφεγγίζαν κάτω σαν παρδαλά πανιά απλωμένα στο ακρογιάλι. Ένα φως απαλό και διάφανο, που έμοιαζε σα να ήταν καθρέφτισμα κατιτίς άυλου, έτρεμε στον αέρα και στη γη. Books by Κωσταντίνος Χατζόπουλος
Ο πύργος του ακροπόταμου
Κωσταντίνος Χατζόπουλος, 1915
A crumbling tower by the river, three sisters and a name to protect: a story about how the need for respect eats people alive. Set before the reader's eyes.
Αντάρτης
Κωσταντίνος Χατζόπουλος, 1914
A volunteer poet joins the 1912 Balkan War expecting glory and finds mud, rumours and a moon over the ridge. The dream of a Greater Greece as it actually felt.
Η Αννιώ
Κωσταντίνος Χατζόπουλος, 1894
A poor shop boy loves the neighbour's daughter, leaves to make his fortune, and comes back twenty years later to a town that remembers him better than he remembers himself.
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