"As I finished with mine, I see Alberto Nar getting up and embracing the other Alberto, whose last name is Stok, and they both become a complex of sorrow and bitterness. I open my arms and embrace them within me and ask them: 'Tell me brothers, because I don't want to leave with the question, you who now fly over the past, present, maybe even the future, as you survive in the heavens, what is the reason, why and for whom did this war, this disaster happen, now that Dachau, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen have become tourist attractions of an unspeakable horror?'"

"The 'Party', the eleventh collection of short stories by Periklis Sphiridis, is a wide mosaic of elements-pieces that are part of his well-known thematic of storytelling, which established him as one of the most experienced writers of the second post-war generation: the wise approach to life and death, the loves and the death of his naive painter friend Panos Papanakos, the love for domestic animals that reaches self-justice, the struggle for survival of humans and animals in the harsh world of the countryside, migration and xenophobia, the authenticity of simple people who preserve the subconscious of our race, the torment of animals, a remnant of an ancient island tradition, the transactions surrounding the awarding of state literary prizes, the pain and destruction that drugs bring to the lives of young people, the reunion of two friends with the same name, a German of the Occupation and a Salonican Jew, emigrants in the other world for a long time, who return tormentingly in memory, the concern for the alienation of the human and residential environment, but also the bittersweet memory of love, the calm anticipation of death and the internal preparation of elderly people for a final journey of 'recreation'."

Sphiridis expresses himself succinctly, with the narrative methods of realism (we could particularly characterize it as "humanistic realism"), without lacking tendencies towards modernism. In his essays, he expresses his belief in the author, in the communicative possibilities of writing, but also in the power of literature to heal the wounds of the soul.