The Maze (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Panos Karnezis
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1922
- Setting: Western Turkey
- Principal Characters: Brigadier Nestor, Major Porfirio, Father Simeon, Medic, Mayor, Mr. Othon, Madame Violetta, Annina, Yusef
- Genres: Long fiction, War fiction
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, Twentieth century, Villages, War, World War I, Soldiers, Greece or Greek people, Turkey or Turkish people
- Locales: Turkey
Panos Karnezis’ lovely novel The Maze is a story of despair, loss of faith, madness, addiction, and treachery that conveys the absurd heroism of a military disaster. The disaster comes three years after a Greek military force has attacked and occupied western Anatolia (Turkey) to protect the ethnic Greek population there, which first colonized the area in classical times. Nationalist Turkish forces mustered from the collapsed Ottoman Empire eventually stop and crush the attack. The focus of the novel is on a retreating Greek brigade of a thousand soldiers and later an unnamed,...
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