Orthokostá : a novel /

Orthokostá : a novel /

Orthokōstá : a novel /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Valtinos, Thanasēs, author. Βαλτινος, Θανασης, author.
Uniform title:	Orthokōsta. English Ορθοκωστα.́ English
Imprint:	New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2016] ©2016
Description:	xxxi, 264 pages: maps ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	A margellos world republic of letters book Margellos world republic of letters book.
Subject:	Civil War (Greece : 1944-1949) Greece -- History -- Civil War, 1944-1949 -- Fiction. Greece. Greek fiction, Modern. Historical fiction. Fiction. Historical fiction. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10782793

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Other authors / contributors:	Assimakopoulos, Jane, translator. Deligiorgis, Stavros, 1933- translator. Kalyvas, Stathis N., 1964- writer of foreword.
ISBN:	0300209991 9780300209990
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."--Publisher's description.

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Call Number:	PA5633.A4 O7713 2016
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