The novelistic biography Giannoulis Chalepas is aimed at the numerous Greek readers who know very little about the life and work of the great Tinian sculptor, whose few surviving works - among them the famous Sleep Woman - opened the doors of immortality wide for him.

Despite the harsh trials and the unfavorable social environment that confined Chalepas for about forty years in psychopathy and artistic inertia, his name is inscribed among the great names in the history of art.

Chalepas (1851-1938) embodied, as an artistic personality, the national essence of Palamas, the poetic fragmentation and drama of Solomos, the ethos of the experiential prose writer Papadiamantis, and the tragedy of the life of the charming poet and storyteller Vizyenos.

The author's engagement with Giannoulis Chalepas is due to the emotion evoked in him by both the legend of this man and his remarkable creative work. Thus, Christos Samouilidis embarked on a five-year arduous research project, the living culmination of which is this book, complemented by photographs from the life and work of the Tinian artist and an extensive bibliography.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]