Seferis and the novel
A reading of Six Nights on the Acropolis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11933282 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roderick Beaton (0000-0002-0689-0054, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Pages | 156-184 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-0131 • E-ISSN: 1749-625X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1179/byz.2001.25.1.155 |
| OpenAlex | W1965373347 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Seferis’s only completed novel makes few concessions to the realist tradition. He was, however, fascinated by the genre and made five attempts to write a novel. Six Nights is a hybrid, transgressive text, which draws on an uncanonical tradition of fiction, from the Odyssey and The Arabian Nights to Gide and Proust. Six Nights can be read as diary-novel, pastiche or parody following Gide, symbolist novel, Bildungsroman , and roman à clef . Close readings under each of these headings reveal the complexity and the experimental nature of Six Nights , and help to situate it within Seferis’ developing oeuvre
Acropolis · Ancient history · Art · Linguistics · Literature · Reading (process · Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism · History · Philosophy · Spanish Culture and Identity · Spanish Literature and Culture Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |