Poet, novelist, civil servant and powerful political figure, Alexandros Kapandais is a soap bubble.
He is the voter who, thirsting for power, manages through intrigue to climb the upper ranks of the Greek civil service and to impose himself as the supposedly top of the Greek intellectual firmament. He represents a society that is steadily paving its way towards the cliff.
In a busy twenty-four hours, on April 21, 1983, a day that will be honored for his forty years of contribution to letters by the Ministry of Culture, Kapandais struggles feverishly to balance between ministerial meetings, a meeting with his mistress, a visit to the publishing house that is delaying the publication of his new poetry collection, a visit to the hospital where his only true friend is dying, and consoling his biographer, who has been "ordered" by his ministry. Until he arrives at the Cultural Center of the Municipality and everything changes...
With the hilarious and at the same time bitter "Fantastic Adventure", several years before the bankruptcy crisis of 2010, Alexandros Kotzias warns of the signs of decay in post-political Greece. In its new edition, his ironic, sarcastic and always timely seventh novel, includes extensive footnotes by Michael S. Kalavros, a rich anthology of critical notes and an epilogue by Eleni Kechagioglou.