Essays, articles, reviews, scripta minima, years of reading experience, texts both published and unpublished, all "restructured" (rearranged and corrected) to form entirely new material—this is the content of this volume.

Modernism, postmodernism, tradition, the major milestones of literature that changed our reading habits, the so-called Hellenocentrism and its pathological entanglements, the intertextual relationships in the archipelago of writing, the "oblique" heretical or unorthodox works are the themes that occupy the author in this volume, with an obsessive intensity.

An intensity that does not relate to any notion of apostolic ministry towards the art of writing, but rather to the style (a bit blasé, a bit cynical) of the writer who considers literature dangerous (as it idealizes instead of humanizing) for the world.

ESSAY PRIZE 2015, KOSTAS & ELENI OURANI FOUNDATION, ATHENS ACADEMY