About the book: 1983 / Using one of the most famous ancient Greek myths about the virtuous wife of Odysseus Penelope, Kostas Varnalis creates a merciless satire on the modern bourgeois state, mercilessly castigates its ugliness and vices, exposes the misanthropic essence of the fascist dictatorship. “The Diary of Penelope” was created by Varnalis during the darkest period of the Italo-German occupation of Greece. This is a caustic satire in which the reader will certainly find intonations similar to the caustic intonations of J. Swift and A. France, but at the same time this work is deeply national, imbued with a love of history.