ABSTRACT
Since the authors discuss a wide range of still unsettled literary phenomena of prose writing, and since the authors are still unable to canonize or evaluate the average tendencies of recent Greek fiction production, one of the authors has preferred to narrow down the scope of the authors' discussion in the hope of avoiding schematic generalizations. This chapter focuses on specific practice that links contemporary Greek fiction with its international counterparts. It explores the way in which fictional texts incorporate and draw more freely than ever upon various literary and non-literary sources, at the same time questioning the representational value of literary narrative. Journalism and fiction-writing have always been in close relation, but nowadays the relationship has widened further: heterogeneous text types such as historical narratives, media narratives, interviews, letters, news reports and news articles, documentaries, small ads and other advertisements have been incorporated within the boundaries of the fictional text.
