“Never in human history has life changed as drastically as in the 20th century.” With this phrase as a starting point, Konstantinos Poulis began to record conversations with his father, a representative of the generation that experienced the immense scope of changes in the last century, from pigskin shoes and cornmeal to the smartphone.

He comments on these memories with short essays about the history of everyday life, from the perspective of material culture and communication. This book speaks about food, clothing, children's games, dance, folk medicine, television, and the internet, while simultaneously relying on testimony and reading.

These short essays attempt to compare how we experience hunger and satiety, what is cold and hot, cleanliness and dirt, communication and contact, desire and need, from the father's childhood in Karvounari of Arcadia to the present day.

By exploring the content of nostalgia for rural life or awe towards technology, this book investigates life in our era, viewed through the eyes of history.

THE AUTHOR Konstantinos Poulis was born in 1973 in Athens. He studied sociology and ancient drama in Greece and England. He has published literary texts, book reviews, and essays in the magazines Plinodion, Parodos, Bilieto, K, Nea Estia, note-taking, and Neo Plinodion. He has been performing street theater for many years with the troupe Tsiritsantsoules and works at www.thepressproject.gr.