The archive of Stavros Zoumboulakis was recently added to the collections of the ΝLG, following a donation by the President of the NLG’s Electoral Council at the end of 2022.

The archive consists of various documents concerning the creation and reception of Stavros Zoumboulakis’ literary work from 1992 to 2023, such as original texts, articles published in the press, book reviews and correspondence with friends and readers. The author’s field of interest is aptly summarized in the title of his recent book “The Ethics of Love and Political Action” and ranges thematically from philosophical reflection, Christian theology, humanistic education and literary criticism to autobiographical testimony.

It also includes his personal archive from when he was director of Neue Estia (1998-2012). Through correspondence with collaborators, subscribers and friends of the journal, as well as the published and unpublished manuscripts of regular contributors – important figures in contemporary modern Greek literature and criticism, such as Elias Lagios, George Pavlopoulos, Yannis Varveris, Nassos Vagenas, Kostas Montis and many others – the effort to renew the historical journal is recorded and the picture of the intellectual paths of the era is captured.

In a separate section of the archive, the donor has included his personal and constant correspondence with three iconic scholars of Greek letters, Zissimos Lorentzatos (1915-2004), Stylianos Alexiou (1921-2013) and N.D. Triantafylopoulos. Each of varying length and density, each one unfolds the breadth of thought and the key observations of each of them on literary events.

A distinctive part of Stavros Zoumboulakis’s donation is the Nikos Cachtitsis Archive (NLG F1897-1900), which was donated to him by the poet George Pavlopoulos and has been presented in a previous Acquisitions Bulletin (no. 6, December 2022).

A short description of the archive has been posted on the website of the National Library of Greece, while the physical documents can be studied in the Manuscript Reading Room where the tools for indexing and documenting the manuscript are available.