Papadiamantis, as a sharp observer and critic of social issues, could not ignore politics.

It is not he who enters into politics; rather, politics permeates his work, and he boldly positions himself in relation to it.

Those who equate politics with certain declarations or a form of inclusion certainly find it difficult to place Papadiamantis on any ideological shelf.

Papadiamantis did not approach the people; he was the people himself and remained, until the end of his life, a simple man of the people, unashamed of this identity.

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