From the Soil to the Page: Notes from a Lifelong Apprenticeship
NEO PLANODION, 16 September 2026 From the Soil to the Page: Notes from a Lifelong Apprenticeship By DIMITRIS BOSNAKIS From the Soil to the Page is a series of literary essays in which the archaeologist’s gaze becomes a way of reading literature as well. Archaeological patience trains the eye to attend to the small and the concrete, to recognize the significance of a find within its context and its relations, to distinguish sequences in time, to respect gaps, and never to allow interpretation to stray so far that it loses sight of the trace that first prompted it. Literature is read here in much the same way. A word, a gesture, a sound, an object, a shift in point of view, or a repetition returning many pages later may function as a find, illuminating the narrative architecture of an entire work. The literary page thus acquires a stratigraphy of its own, while reading takes on something of the discipline and the excitement of excavation: from the small find to the lar...
