This volume contains a series of diverse prose works that transport us to not-so-distant times and bring us into direct contact with people and situations that we can easily recognize even today. Life is realistically depicted as a struggle, a comedy and farce, a drama and tragic fate, a cry and denunciation, a song and hymn, a theater and cinema, a poetry... We travel with these texts to the beauty of nature, the truth of history, the essence of thought, the harsh reality of people, the city and the village... Texts with a variety of themes and interests that move, provoke thought, awaken the senses, stir the soul, satisfy the spirit. With a language that exudes literature, Kotzioulas, with tender and sincere, lyrical and vivid speech, elevates prose to poetry. A neo-realistic ethnography that surprises the reader with the immediacy of its description, delights with the variety of its language, and urges contemplation on the essence of things.

With these prose works, Giorgos Kotzioulas enriches modern Greek literature with works that continue the robust tradition stemming from the generation of Vizyinos and Papadiamantis, with a language that flows fresh and melodious to the senses and mind, a language born only from great creators.