The Greek civil war

Greece emerged from occupation in 1944 only to enter at once a civil war that would last until 1949 and leave the country divided for thirty years. Writers who had been through the Resistance found themselves watched, exiled or deported to the islands, and many afterwards wrote in veiled terms, by allusion and by fragment. Tsirkas tells of the Mediterranean East of army officers and plots, Chatzis of the slow end of a small provincial town, Sinopoulos writes a banquet of the dead.

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• PoetryΣτους φίλους μιας άλλης χαράςGiorgos Sarantaris · 1940not translated into EnglishThe last collection published in the lifetime of a thirty-two-year-old poet, a few months before he left for the front, it asserts a joy that his age did not share.LiteraturePublic domain
• Short storiesThe End of Our Small TownΤο τέλος της μικρής μας πόληςDimitris Chatzis · 1953A collection of linked stories, first published in Bucharest during its author's exile, it tells of the extinction of a provincial town and of the old world it sheltered.Literature
• NovelDrifting CitiesΑκυβέρνητες πολιτείεςStratis Tsirkas · 1961The first volume of a trilogy completed in 1965, it follows the Greeks of the East and the soldiers in exile during the war, between Jerusalem, Cairo and Alexandria.Literature
• PoetryΝεκρόδειπνοςTakis Sinopoulos · 1970not translated into EnglishA long poem published under the junta, it draws up the funeral roll of the obscure dead of the Greek wars, under the Occupation and in the fratricidal struggle.Literature