The Few Things I Know About Glafkos Thrassakis

A brilliant work of the imagination as well as a commentary on writing, this novel follows a biographer’s investigation into the life of a mysterious...more

A brilliant work of the imagination as well as a commentary on writing, this novel follows a biographer’s investigation into the life of a mysterious deceased Greek writer, Glafkos Thrassakis. Told from the biographer’s point of view, the book explores the identification of the fictive with the real and leaves the narrator questioning his subject’s very existence. This unconventional novel forces readers, as Vassilikos says, “to work with the tools it gives you and refrain from looking for things outside the chalk circle of the story itself.” Available in English for the first time, this is considered Vassilikos’s, Greece’s most acclaimed novelist, masterpiece.   less