If Karkavitsas belongs to the classics of our modern prose, "The beggar" is certainly the more classical work. The genre painting and seascape Karkavitsas of short stories is here experienced anatomist of the human soul. The description of the social microcosm, with the people and the places, unfolds in one of the strongest novels of modern Greek literature. "The beggar" was praised highly by both Greek critics and by authoritative foreign Hellenists.
Could the Greek looks like "beggars" of the 19th century? Some would see the modern Greek as the cunning uncut trying to survive and others as one who is forced to carry individualistic, because society does not give them the means to evolve.