America 62 De Prfundis

I wrote the brief scattered notes for this book between October 1962 and May 1963 during a trip to the United States that remained stuck in my memory and the memory of millions of people because of the Cuban crisis that threatened humanity with nuclear destruction. After returning to Cyprus, I gathered those notes in the summer and fall of 1963 and retyped them on the typewriter, leaving them in my files to wait for more than forty years. In 2003, while I was writing my autobiographical novel "Diva," I remembered it, so I pulled it from the time vault, reread it, and some friends read it as well, then we discussed it and concluded that the years that passed support the eternity of the events and circumstances that describe, clarify, and emphasize their importance. After this evaluation, I began working on the text, adding and highlighting different aspects, a process that continued for nearly four years. Thus, the scraps and notes I found in my desk drawer turned into chapters and took the form they have today. Most of the events and situations contained in this book are real, and for understandable reasons, I gave the characters different names.