Vassilikos, Vassilis (Vol. 4) | Vassilikos, Vassilis 1933–
Vassilikos, Vassilis 1933–
Vassilikos is a Greek novelist, playwright, and screenwriter best known for the novel Z.
Most Left-of-center novelists, following in the Marxist tradition, get tangled in their message, producing caricatures and losing sight of artistic goals. Vassilikos almost always remembers that he is first of all a novelist. He accepts experimental techniques as compatible with his didactic purpose and as by no means an intrusion of form into content. Obviously [he is] well-read in the European new novel….
Robert J. Clements, "Prefiguring the Coup," in Saturday Review/World (copyright © 1968 by Saturday Review/World, Inc.; reprinted with permission), November 16, 1968, p. 51.
In [Z,] his only book available here since "The Plant, The Well, The Angel,"… Vassilis Vassilikos … demonstrates new and considerable storytelling and lyric powers. Designing a pattern as...
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