DE L’AUTOBIOGRAPHIE A LA FICTION CHEZ VASSILIS ALEXAKIS
VASSILIS ALEXAKIS : FROM AUTOBIOGRAPHY TO FICTION

Summary/Abstract: A francophone writer of Greek origin, exiled in France after 1968 and the beginning of the colonels’ dictatorship in his country, Vassilis Alexakis is concerned with the issues of identity and exile, the choice of language in which to write and with self-translation. These issues are present in his book Paris-Athenes, a remarkable autobiographic text. Our intention is to identify autobiographical elements in his novel La langue maternelle and to present various features of his Greek space of origin as well as of his mother tongue which the exiled author wants to regain.

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