Eternal youth, endless passions, subtle pleasures and secrets, wild joys and even wilder sins; I will live all of these. And the portrait will bear the weight...

There are certain landscapes worth revisiting again and again, even in your youth, when you are a determined collector of experiences. And when I revisited, the book that in my adolescence was a classic bold ode to narcissism, the image suddenly became clear before me.

This is not a phlegmatic hedonistic narrative, but a philosophical quest in space and time, ethics and aesthetics, firmly based on Aristotelian foundations.

Giannis Voliotis (from the preface of the edition)