Zorz Sari’s novel Κόκκινη κλωστή δεμένη is once again an exception. As it was mentioned in the previous chapter, this largely autobiographical novel was published in 1974 three years after the publication of the also autobiographical novel Όταν ο Ήλιος…. In these novels Sari reflects on her personal experience from the period of the Occupation, while her trilogy on History is completed with the novel Οι νικητές (The winners) set in the period of the Dekemvriana and published in 1983. Most of the characters of the first novel reappear in the next two books, while in all three novels the protagonist and focalising character is Zoe, Sari’s persona that reappears in many of her novels.
In the words of Sari herself, the novel ‘η Κόκκινη κλωστή δεμένη is not a sequel but rather a brief supplement to Όταν ο ήλιος…’, a book in …show more content…
The most important of these things that remained untold in the first novel is that the resistance organisation of which Zorz/Zoe was a member during the Occupation was in fact the EPON. In 1974 gone were the restrictions that forced Sari to self-censor her previous novel and tiptoe around her involvement in the EAM youth wing. In Κόκκινη κλωστή δεμένη Sari can at long last admit without fear that she was in the EAM resistance and after decades of stumbling onto ‘a tall and dark wall of silence’ she can now exclaim through the character of Eirini: ‘Now, who were those free people who liberated Greece? It was us, father. It was us who fought for four years. We risked our lives.’ This is another aspect that differentiates Sari’s novel from the narratives of all other writers that have been discussed so far. Their reluctance to touch upon the issue of the EAM resistance gives young readers confusing ideas about
In the words of Sari herself, the novel ‘η Κόκκινη κλωστή δεμένη is not a sequel but rather a brief supplement to Όταν ο ήλιος…’, a book in …show more content…
The most important of these things that remained untold in the first novel is that the resistance organisation of which Zorz/Zoe was a member during the Occupation was in fact the EPON. In 1974 gone were the restrictions that forced Sari to self-censor her previous novel and tiptoe around her involvement in the EAM youth wing. In Κόκκινη κλωστή δεμένη Sari can at long last admit without fear that she was in the EAM resistance and after decades of stumbling onto ‘a tall and dark wall of silence’ she can now exclaim through the character of Eirini: ‘Now, who were those free people who liberated Greece? It was us, father. It was us who fought for four years. We risked our lives.’ This is another aspect that differentiates Sari’s novel from the narratives of all other writers that have been discussed so far. Their reluctance to touch upon the issue of the EAM resistance gives young readers confusing ideas about