Everyone recognizes the fundamental role of classical Greece in European culture, but what image do we have of Greece today?? Often, that of a failed country, impoverished and nostalgic for its past glories. Why Greece?, today? He confronts this cliché with a clear and well-argued thesis: modern Greece - from the War of Independence to the 21st century - has been and continues to be a first-rate cultural power.
With a fragmentary and vibrant structure, the work covers figures as diverse as Cavafy, Theophilos, Kazantzakis or Anguelópulos for showing with, in fields such as literature, theology, political thought, arts and cinema, Greece has continued to give voice to Europe and offer universal references. The result is a lucid and passionate mosaic, which combines erudition with critical reading and which claims Greece not as a memory, but as a cultural compass for the present.
