'I have been reading and re-reading Antigone Kefala's prose and poetry throughout the past decades, ever since I discovered her work in the 1990s and decided to write part of my PhD thesis on her writing. I have been following the development of her themes, which I might call 'obsessions', without giving to the word any neurotic meaning. After all, aren't all writers who write out of necessity and not out of fashion, aren't all artists somehow 'obsessed'?' (Introduction)