'The book Reflections on Presence : In Five Days, by Professor Vrasidas Karalis was published in 2016, and it is dedicate to Manoy Lascaris, guardian at the gates.' (Introduction)
'Vrasidas Karalis' Reflections on Presence opens up the abyssal spaces of challenge that can be traced to certain aspects of the western philosophical project since its inception with the pre-Socratics...' (Introduction)
'Beyond its rather unsettling theme, the book reflects my engagement with Earnest Hemingway. His early staccato, succinct, self-ironic style a style that knows of its limitations and boundaries and makes the most by restricting itself to an absolutely essential vocabulary.' (Introduction)
'I am honoured to have been asked to present this book but I eel a little anxious to speak about a poet with such admirable bounty as well as public recognition and who has expanded and broadened Modern Greek literature in the Diaspora as well as her Motherland.' (Introduction)
