The two speeches by George Seferis delivered in French during the Nobel Prize in Literature ceremony at the Swedish Academy in 1963, focusing on modern Greek tradition, Greek identity, and the Greek language.

The edition includes both speeches in French as well as the translation of his major speech into Greek by G.P. Savvidis.

An epilogue follows with the title "The Poet George Seferis" and a timeline of G. Seferis' life by the poet and critic Dimitris Dascalopoulos, as well as a list of Seferis' works that have been translated into French.