Out of the Ashes
The Emergence of Greek Fiction in the Nineteenth Century
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Out of the Ashes, The Emergence of Greek Fiction in the Nineteenth Century, is the result of a novelist's interest in the genre of fiction and the product of decades of research. Fiction is a form that requires certain linguistic and social conditions before it can exist, let alone flourish, Doulis believes, but how did the novel in the Greek language, comprising one of the world's greatest narrative traditions, reemerge after four centuries of Ottoman Occupation?
This is a question Doulis attempts to answer in his trail blazing work, discovering in the process a number of interesting and heretofore ignored novels.
About the Author
Thomas Doulis, a critic, translator, and literary historian, has published two novels: Path for Our Valor, (1963) a novel about the paratroops, and The Quarries of Sicily, (1969), set in Greece during the years of the military Junta. He has worked on The Open Hearth, and a sequel, for seventeen years.