ABSTRACT
The Balkan turn of modern Greek fiction is an offspring of the last decade of the twentieth century. There are essentially two ways in which contemporary Greek writers open out towards the Balkans. One way is static and inward and implies a sort of observation post— the Balkan foreigner represents a hero who, having just begun to move to the tune of Greek society is converted to the object of an initial recording and exploration. The other way is outward and entails moving the field of observation beyond Greece. The writers who adopt the former way are inevitably led to the consequences for everyday life of the structural changes. The settlement of Balkan migrants in Greece and the multiple situations clearly summarizes the basic features of the former type of approach to the Balkan foreigner, namely observing and describing the other in terms of one's own nativeness, which is safe in its guaranteed order.
