A Newly Translated Novel Captures the Tragedy of Greek Communism
A Newly Translated Novel Captures the Tragedy of Greek Communism
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jacobin.com A Newly Translated Novel Captures the Tragedy of Greek Communism
Written in 1972, during Greece’s military junta, leftist Marios Chakkas’s recently translated novel The Commune is a mournful testament from a world where the stakes of politics were communism or fascism, democracy or dictatorship.
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