This book provides a comprehensive overview of modern Greek literature. The reader can find information particularly about contemporary Greek writers, for whom there are often no other complete resources.

The appendix containing the most important foreign language authors, who are generally known to the Greek reading public, is also useful. A significant advantage is the selection of the most insightful reviews that accompanies the presentation of the main literati of our country.

The benefit of using a book like this is not just the specific knowledge one gains; that is not primarily it. What is important is the stimulation one feels to read the literature of our land, to get to know both our older and contemporary writers.

To grasp the pulse and the quests of the world in which one lives, to realize its content, with its weaknesses, contradictions, problems, and virtues, and finally, to enjoy the art of our homeland.

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