Konstantinos Chatzopoulos was born in 1868. His maternal grandparents were among the wealthiest families in Agrinio, so Konstantinos was able to pursue his literary interests without financial worries. He cut a dashing figure as a young dandy dressed in white. His disappointment at the crushing defeat of the Greek army in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 made him reject the irredentist ideals of the Greek state. He moved to Germany where he became a Marxist and translated the “Communist Manifesto” to Greek for the first time. He spent the First World War years working as a censor in Greece while publishing short stories and novels. He died from food poisoning in 1920 on the boat to Italy.