This edition was published on the occasion of the homonymous exhibition organized by the Cultural Foundation of the National Bank in the bookstore of the Foundation on America Street 13 (November 28, 2016, to January 28, 2017).

Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven inspired a multitude of artists, most notably the works of Manet, Doré, and Gauguin, while in our visual arts, it was conveyed by Marios Prasinos and Leonidas Christakis. The engravings of Tasos Mantzavinos under the title The Raven were first presented in a collectible edition of twenty numbered copies by Mimnermos Editions in 2015.

Giorgis Mylonas notes among other things: “The artist illustrates the raven with a simple, contemporary language, similar to that used by graffiti artists in their works on the streets. The poet himself appears on stage, initially terrified, then as a figure above the memory of his beloved Leonora; the bust of Athena-Wisdom as a reminder of the inevitable, fateful end; the raven, flying or still, an angel-prophet of evil; the dead Leonora, sometimes as a skeleton, sometimes as 'sleeping'. Similarly, he curates the direction with only the absolutely necessary: the window, the entrance for the raven with the floating curtain; the shaking chair, the poet's seat. And, of course, the hands that hover disembodied and suspended in space, a recognizable sample of Mantzavinos's writing.

The raven is not only Poe's but also the artist's, who does not merely illustrate but walks alongside the poet. […] As we open the book, we see the raven identified with the Moon, with the night, that it is itself the night. And then, the poet, the artist, Athena, and death are intertwined, with the raven above them. The black will envelop everything in its vortex, and the raven will confirm to the artist that yes, there is no Eden for him, that the only thing that exists is a now without anything else anymore.