Why don’t we tell people how much we love them, how much we appreciate them, how much we admire them while they are alive? It's always the same story. "Once you die, the bonuses without recipients begin," wrote Papayiorgis, a bitter and premature lament for himself.

The Kostis Papayiorgis – They Were All There is a monograph that follows the author, who was greatly and fervently loved, in the pathways of his life and his literary adventures, but primarily pays the due tribute to a thinker who helped the modern Greek to organize his unmanageable self.