ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the relationship between autobiography and fiction during the latter part of the long nineteenth century in Greek. In order to examine the relationship between fictional prose and autobiography one should take into account the fact that during the nineteenth century two types of autobiography developed in Greece. Dimitrios Vikelas, whose fictional and autobiographical works will be the principal focus of the chapter, is of central importance in the cultural sphere of nineteenth-century Greece. Vikelas kept his residence in Paris until 1902, and one should take due notice of the fact that only during the last five years of his life did he have a single residence, in Greece. Loukis Laras is a piece of fictional prose that underscores the relationship between autobiography and prose fiction when linked to Vikelas's own autobiography as the function and importance of commerce and the role of the unknown soldier who can very well be a merchant is concerned.
