The Few Things I Know About Glafkos Thrassakis (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Vassilis Vassilikos
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1933-1989
- Setting: Greece, Italy, Germany, and the United States
- Principal Characters: Glafkos Thrassakis, Mrs. Lazaridis, The unnamed narrator, His wife, Anna, A Danish countess, A Dutch pastor, Joe
- Genres: Long fiction, Translation, Novel
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Exile or expatriates, World War II, Fathers, Publishing or publishers, Nazism or Nazis, Greece or Greek people, Cannibalism
- Locales: United States, Germany, Italy, Greece
Vassilis Vassilikos is not well-known in North America, nor is his novel The Few Things I Know About Glafkos Thrassakis, which is making its initial appearance in English long after its original publication in the 1970’s, and with several later revisions. The “I” of the title is an unnamed narrator, who is preparing a critical biography of the late writer Glafkos Thrassakis but who finds himself baffled by contradictory information about his subject. His book in progress, The Collected Discovered Works of Glafkos Thrassakis, will span the forty-five years of...
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