This book - as well as the eponymous television show on which it is based - is not only aimed at literature lovers but also at a much wider audience, which remains sensitive to the problems and searches of our time. By transcribing the conversations he had either alone or with Mikela Hartoulari with the 33 famous authors of this volume, Antaios Chrysostomides focuses his gaze each time on a specific topic according to the interests of his interlocutor. Issues concerning our era - the problems of democracy in the Western world, religious fanaticism, the problem of nationalism, the crisis of moral values, racism, European historical traumas, sexual freedom - are constantly intertwined with issues concerning literature, its future, and its positive or sometimes negative impact on society. A journey through a magical world written almost like a novel.

Nikolo Amaniti - Margaret Atwood - Maurice Attia - Martin Walser - Mario Vargas Llosa (Nobel 2010) - Gamal Al Ghitani - Nadine Gordimer (Nobel 1991) - Hans Magnus Enzensberger - Javier Cercas - Andrea Camilleri - Daniel Kehlmann - Hanif Kureishi - John Le Carre - Claudio Magris - Vladimir Makanin - Ian McEwan - Norman Manea - Harry Mulisch - John Banville - Amos Oz - Paul Auster - Orhan Pamuk (Nobel 2006) - George Pelecanos - Sergio Pitol - Santiago Roncagliolo - Jose Saramago (Nobel 1998) - Ingo Schulze - Antonio Tabucchi - P. D. James - Dario Fo (Nobel 1997) - Carlos Fuentes - Yasmina Khadra - Alan Hollinghurst.