Passages and greetings to old and familiar acquaintances, all the texts in the book by Antigoni Vlavianou utilize the lessons of comparative literature: books, authors, and ideas are in continuous dialogue, and it is up to the sensitive listener to convey something of these hidden conversations or to mediate so that kindred souls who are moving parallel to each other without having planned or imagined it can get to know one another.

Guiding us through a personal museum of valuable exhibits, with which she has coexisted for many years, she trains our gaze on wise details, sensitizes our reading attention, and broadens the horizons of our perception. “Happy to have embarked on a beautiful journey” feels the reader who closes this book wiser, more capable, richer with the “second glance” at people and things, intertwining familiar and unknown landscapes.