As intra-European borders become increasingly open, Greek intellectual creators seem to encounter invisible barriers when stepping beyond the Greek territory.

Particularly, the literature of our country struggles to resonate abroad, a fact that does not hold true for the literature of many other small or relatively small countries. Why is this happening?

Starting from this question, Kostas Katsoulas and Dimosthenis Kourtovik unfold a lengthy discussion around Greek "exceptionalism," Greek identity, the peculiarities of our literature, the pathologies of criticism, international cultural trends, Greek women's literature, and much more, approaching these issues with original viewpoints but without dogmatic constraints.