To date, there has been no monograph in French on the genre of short forms (narrative, short story, long short story) in the Greek language.

In this book by Christophoros Milionis - himself a master of the short story - you will find a well-documented and synthetic presentation representing the current state of the question.

The main thesis of the book is that the history of the Greek short story begins well before the era of the Italian Renaissance and that therefore a presentation of the genre must integrate its ancient and medieval forms.

This does not mean that the short story evolved in Greece in splendid isolation. Greek forms of this genre assimilate both the ancient legacy and Western influences. Demonstrating this reveals the originality of the Greek short story within the European literary landscape.

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