My project involves the study of Demetrios Capetanakis, a multilingual intellectual who enjoyed a reputation both in Greece and in the English-speaking world as a poet, philosopher, critic, translator, and spokesman of Modern Greek letters. Given his cosmopolitan background and the relations he maintained with a wide range of European intellectuals (Karl Jaspers, Ioannis Sykoutris, George Seferis, John Lehmann, Edith Sitwell), his works are of particular interest with respect to the history of ideas in inter-war Europe, as well as for the fields of Modern Greek and Comparative Literature. My short-term project is to complete a paper on Capetanakis’ lecture on Proust, a text which survives in four linguistic versions (French, German, English, and Modern Greek) and showcases the author’s bold synthesis of Platonic idealism and the philosophy of despair, as well as his joint approach to philosophy and literature. My longer-term project is to prepare a new edition of his works so as to make them accessible to a wider audience of scholars and readers.