Emotional truth & existential passion.
As a result of her multi-ethnicity, Aurora Kastanias’ works reflect the fusion of cultures characterising our globalisation era, by approaching different emotional intelligences through a unifying one.
AK NOVELS are a depiction of physical, mental and emotional journeys. Whether through long walks on city roads, international itineraries or cross-ocean voyages, Aurora Kastanias tackles issues revolving around the essence of human beings. Sentiments, such as loneliness and feelings of belonging, tedium and happiness, self-contempt and self-actualisation, are usually combined with the products of a rational mind and the humbleness of existential quests, revolutionising concepts of time and space, life and death.
AK POEMS, written in Italian, English and French, represent a sort of diary where the poet notes ideas, marvels, opinions, feelings and emotions, resulting from everyday life, observation of nature, human experiences and current events. Aurora Kastanias finds inspiration gazing at her surroundings, within herself, through her fellow human beings and beyond into infinity at the Universe galore. Poems she calls Poeticles and defines as Autopoiesis of Consciousness.
AK ESSAYS, are the beginning of a new orientation or simply the natural evolution of her being, slightly diverging the focus from Humanity to the Universe as a whole, engaging in studies of physics, astrophysics and cosmology but also history, natural philosophy, spirituality and esoteric studies.
EXILIUM VITA EST has been Aurora Kastanias’ mantra all throughout the writing of her first novel. The idea of life being an exile inevitably leads one to ponder on our essence. Concepts of solitude and relationships lead us to reconsider our identity. Can man find harmony or peace within society? And what happens to him when he ‘exiles’ from it? Are we all united through the bounds of our race or are we individual particles floating around in a chaotic way? These are only a few of the existential questions that spark the author’s works and inspire her to create fantastic mental and physical journeys within material and intangible spaces, now looking for an answer in the stars.