This work aspires to be the first systematic and comprehensive biography of Ioannis Sikoutris, a heroic and tragic figure of Greek letters and thought.
A man in whose persona the spiritual and moral reflexes of our society were tested, as this pioneer of literary science, with international recognition, became, in his short but extraordinarily creative life, a target of cunning slander, the only weapon that never misses.
“And this weapon, the Greeks—those wonderful, art-loving Greeks, the first creators of good and evil speech—handled with unique cleverness and skill since Antiquity, so as to commit the bloodless moral murder more thoroughly than the physical one, without consequences.”
At the same time, this study composes the fresco of the troubled early decades of the 20th century, as an anatomy of historical and spiritual events whose consequences are strong even to this day.
[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
