LIBRARY OF THE SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY

Phoebus Papageorgiou was born and lived in the centre of Athens. His natural genius allowed him, constantly fed by the written word, to live peculiarly devoted to the spoken word.

Books and the telephone were his daily routine. Young women reading, cats and the unrequited loves of friends were his favorite concerns.

He loved mathematics, philosophy, social and political anatomy, economics, and the literature of his time. Old and modern cinema. Of strict bourgeois education, he was by conviction a playful lover of the most unconventional ideals. A master of the piano, he loved carnivals in German medieval towns, good French food and elaborate cocktails.

For many young people in the 1970s and 1980s he was a seductive mentor and a model of the bourgeois, atypical, way of behaving, talking, kissing and thinking. 
Without any professional, social or economic ambition, he spent his life generously advising and conversing. His sole self-interest, perhaps, was the pursuit of the most charming, the most convincing thought or analysis at any given time. 

A man's library, while he lives, traces the untold walks that are his life. When he is gone, his library remains as an unfulfilled promise, as a travel ticket of unlimited travel. 

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