Ē metastrofē tēs metastrofēs: oi allages (apo to 1953 sto 1963) stē "metastrofē" tōn prōtagōnistōn tou "Telous tēs mikrēs mas polēs"

The first edition of the Modern Greek prosewriter Dimitris Chatzís's collection of short stories "The End of our Small Town" was published in 1953, the second and final edition in 1963. All the stories of the collection show in some way a "conversion" of the protagonist to another mentality or way of live, from tradition to modernity. In the first edition this changes of live end up in joining the communist movement, while in the final edition of 1963 the changes are seen in the broader cultural context of the turn of Greek society, culture and tradition from mediaeval into modern. This "transformation of transformation" from the first to the second edition of Chatzís' collectionis is studied, explained, and interpretated in this article.