GEORG BRANDES:HELLAS.KJOBENHAVN (COPENHAGUEN) 1925 First edition (printed in 1500 copies), in 8vo, contemporary white cloth preserving artistic paper cover, complete 137p., text clean and bright, overall in almost fine condition Brandes was the most influential literary critic in Europe When he turned his attention in Greece, after his visit in the winter of 1922-23 in the aftermath of Asia Minor disaster,he did not wrote a book,he wrote a cultural manifesto. Hellas is a defense of Hellenism against the rising tides of modern nationalism that was the root of Asia Minor disaster. . He provides masterful portraits of Ancient Greeks as intellectual giants,he contrast the clarity and light of Greek thought with the darkness and confusion of the present situation he saw in Greece. Highly literary presentation of Greece in the original Danish.