Description
Set on the Greek island of Lesbos in the 1910s, this novella follows Vasilis Arvanitis as life on the edge of the sea and the edge of history collide—where everyday routines are shadowed by the pressures of war, displacement, and national upheaval. Through a close, human-scale narrative, the book explores memory, endurance, and the quiet moral choices people make when the world around them begins to fracture. Stratis Myrivilis’s lyrical, compassionate style—often associated with his broader “trilogy” of works spanning the First World War through the Asia Minor Disaster—brings a vivid immediacy to the island’s atmosphere and its characters’ inner lives. Together with its biographical and bibliographical framing, the volume also invites readers to see how Myrivilis’s literary vision shaped accounts of trauma and survival in modern Greek letters.
Available Editions
paperback
University of New England
Published Jan 1, 1983
112 pages
ISBN: 9780858345027
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Details
First Published
1983
Language
eng
Translation
From: ell
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