Screen LibraryOrthokostá : a novel /
"First published in 1994 to a storm of controversy, Thanassis Valtinos's probing novel Orthokostá contested standard interpretations of the Greek Civil War. Through the documentary-style testimonies of multiple narrators, among them the previously unheard voices of right-wing collaboration...
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| Group Author: | ; ; |
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Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Haven : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English Greek |
| Series: |
A Margellos world republic of letters book
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| Summary: |
"First published in 1994 to a storm of controversy, Thanassis Valtinos's probing novel Orthokostá contested standard interpretations of the Greek Civil War. Through the documentary-style testimonies of multiple narrators, among them the previously unheard voices of right-wing collaborationists, Valtinos provides a powerful, nuanced interpretation of events during the later years of the Nazi Occupation and the early stages of the nation's Civil War. His fictionalized chronicle gives participants, victims, and innocent bystanders equal opportunity to bear witness to such events as the burning of Valtinos's home village, the detention and execution of combatants and civilians in the monastery of Orthokostá, and the revenge killings that ensued. As a transforming work of literature, this book redefined established methods of fiction; as a novel based on actual history, it changed the way Greeks understand their own past."--Jacket. |
| Item Description: | Includes historical notes. |
| Carrier Form: | xxxi, 264 pages : maps ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780300209990 (hardcover : alkaline paper) : 0300209991 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | PA5633 |
| CLC: | I545.45 |
| Call Number: | I545.45/V215 |