ABSTRACT
In the novels, one can find alternative depictions of the woman writer, that is portraits that embody some of the key issues of the genesis, transformation and assertion of the writing subject, a subject that reveals the numerous and divergent tropes of writing as a woman in the male-orientated and patriarchal culture of Greece. The transformation of their experiences into words seems to be closely related to their experience of becoming unified subjects and sexuality. Experiencing her gender as a 'painful obstacle', the woman writer inscribes her own sickness, bleeding, paralysis, agoraphobia, or the fear of otherness in her texts. The writer-heroines seek to become aware of the paralysing and alienating determinations of the myth of Woman, but equally to avoid embracing an identity articulated through an ideal of a coherent subjectivity which for them would represent the dominant cultural form of masculinity.
