A view of life, fiction and culture within The Balkan Trilogy
A view of life, fiction and culture within The Balkan Trilogy

A literary autobiographic portrait of Olivia Manning

Summary/Abstract: An author worth considering, Olivia Manning, is the creator of an exquisite and stunning writing style. This work begins with an overall view of Manning's masterpiece, The Balkan Trilogy, which targets her experience as a British journalist's wife refugee, her husband, and her friends' adventures in a hostile environment at the beginning of World War II in Romania and Greece. Focused on aspects of life, fiction, and culture, this piece of work will relate her vision of the war, reflected on the keen overview of the social situation of the Balkan space in those years, her couple's hardships to adapt to a new society and its different rules make her a keen observer of a polemic world which finds on the border of the Occident and Orient. This paper highlights the author's vision of narrating her drama as a fictional transposed autobiography in a foreign background and displays the importance of culture in the authorial vision as a refugee. The article will conclude with a hint on the autobiographical traits in the context of a culturalized writer.

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