"Welcome to the world of books that preserve the ephemeral publications. [...] As they often refer to collective artistic experiences, they capture our memory, bringing forth treasures that might have otherwise been buried [...] We suddenly realize that our wealth is greater than we thought, and that we forget it while living with the pennies that consumer society throws at us every day."

These words by Kostis Skaliotis, about the publication of Vassos Varikas' theater reviews in book form in 1973, seem to be written for his own pages in Vima newspaper (1971-1975). Texts that preserve the atmosphere of an era: the darkness of dictatorship, the expectations of the Metapolitefsi period, the youthful uprisings of those times, the rise of consumer society. An era that marks the present more than we usually imagine.
Multithematic texts, by a person with a multidimensional education and political consciousness. Thoughts on literature, theater, cinema. Texts about people who "had something to say" - Seferis, Brecht, Beratis, Tsingou, Villar, Hourmouzi, Chaplin, Moliere, Neruda. Texts about timeless reflections - cultural education, political thought, our relationship with books, justice, the responsibility of public discourse, access to culture. Kostis Skaliotis' pages captivate, provoke thought, engage in conversation with the reader. And as the author himself says when writing about Varikas - "having trust in his character, [...] and in a cultivation that nurtures his text without flooding the surface [...] you don't need to agree with him in order to benefit from his writings."