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1 online resource (264 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
A margellos world republic of letters book
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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 defied 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 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 Orthokost, and the revenge killings that ensued. As a transforming work of literature, this book redefined established methods of fiction; as a work of revisionist history, it changed the way Greece understands its own past. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Greek Civil War (Greece : 1944-1949) |
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Greece -- History -- Civil War, 1944-1949 -- Fiction.
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| Chronological Term |
1944-1949 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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History.
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Historical fiction.
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Novels.
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Novels.
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| Added Author |
Assimakopoulos, Jane, translator.
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Kalyvas, Stathis N., 1964- translator.
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| Added Title |
Orthokōsta. English
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Ορθοκωστά. English
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Valtinos, Thanasēs. Orthokōsta. English. Orthokostá. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016] 0300209991 9780300209990 |
| ISBN |
9780300221039 (electronic book) |
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0300221037 (electronic book) |
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0300209991 |
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9780300209990 |
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