The Few Things I Know About Glafkos Thrassakis A Novel

by Vassilikos, Vassilis; Emmerich, Karen

• ISBN13: 9781583225271
• ISBN10: 1583225277
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Summary

A brilliant work of the imagination as well as a commentary on writing, this novel follows a biographer's investigation into the life of a mysterious deceased Greek writer, Glafkos Thrassakis. Told from the biographer's point of view, the book explores the identification of the fictive with the real and leaves the narrator questioning his subject's very existence.

Author Biography

Born in 1933 in Kavalla in Northern Greece, VASSILIS VASSILIKOS grew up mostly in Salonika. After the military coup in 1967, he spent seven years in exile, returning to Greece in 1974. Author of some 120 books, translated into more than twenty foreign languages, Vassilikos is Greece's formost living novelist. His novel, Z, was adapted for film by Costa Gavras, winning the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1969.

Table of Contents

Translator's Note
Introduction	p. 3
Prologue: Biographical Information	p. 9
Novel	p. 21
The Findings of the First Sack	p. 165
Berliner Ensemble	p. 275
First Afterword: Conversations with Andreas Kalvos	p. 337
Second Afterword	p. 345
Third Afterword	p. 357
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