This edition includes the prose writings of Odysseas Elytis (1946-1974):

- First and foremost, poetry

- The true personality and lyrical boldness of Andreas Calvos

- Art-luck-boldness

- The girls

- Dreams

- The painter Theofilos

- The chronicle of a decade [introduction]

The texts:

- The dangers of semi-knowledge

- A letter about surrealism

- A letter about contemporary art

- Poetic intelligence

- Meaning and sequence in our new poetry

- The contemporary poetic and artistic problems

- Assessment and new beginning

Appendix A:

- The iconographies of General Makriyannis and the folk artist Panagiotis Zografos

- Contemporary Greek art and the painter N. Hatzikyriakos-Ghikas

- Giannis Tsarouchis

- The epithalamiums of Giannis Moralis

- The seaside stones of Nikolaos

- The sculptor Christos Kapralos

- The Fasianos we love

Appendix B:

- Equivalences chez Picasso

- Karolos Koun and his era

- Jean Veltri

Appendix C:

- Arthur Rimbaud

- Lautreamont

- Paul Eluard

- Pierre Reverdy between Greece and Solesmes.