Λουντέμης Μενέλαος. Οδός Αβύσσου αριθμός 0

Athens: Dorikos, 1977. — 412 p. (in Greek)Menelaos Lountemis (1912 – 1977), was a Greek writer born in Constantinople. He inspired his pen name from his later homeland's river Loudias.
Refugee from Yalova after Greek genocide, he find shelter with his family initially in Aegina, then in Edessa and finally in village Exaplatanos of Pella, where he lived from 1923 to 1932 when he left to Kozani. He lived for a while in the state boarding house of Edessa. His family was wealthy, but bankrupted in Greco-Turkish War (1919–22) and Lountemis had to work hard in his adolescence as scullion, shoeblack, cantor, teacher in villages of Almopia, even as a foreman at the then under construction Gallikos river infrastructure works. In the 10th grade – of the six-grade secondary school of that time – he left school due to political reasons and he was expelled from all secondary schools of his country. (His engagement in left-wing politics and his political activities from inside the lines of the Communist Party of Greece, cost him his expulsion from the entire school system.)
Through an odyssey of successive resettlements, from Edessa to state boarding house in Kozani and then to Volos, following a wandering group of that time, he finally reaches Athens and connects closely to Kostas Varnalis, Angelos Sikelianos και Miltiadis Malakassis. The latter will help him to be appointed to the "Athenian Club" as a librarian in 1938 and financially recover. At the same time his friendship with professor of Philosophy Nikolaos Veis, will allow him to attend courses at the School of Philosophy of Athens. A lot of literary successes will follow and he will become member of the Hellenic Association of Litterateurs, under the presidency of Nikos Kazantzakis.