ABSTRACT
It is the privilege of controversial events to leave behind multiple legacies. And the Greek Civil War has been such an event, which has traumatized, transformed, and preoccupied several generations of Greek citizens. Its absence from official national records can, therefore, only arouse suspicions: can such an event have been reduced to a silenced, forgotten fraction of the modern Greek past?1 Indeed, that would very well have been the case had it not been for fiction writers. Far from forgotten, the persisting memory of the conflict is recorded in the numerous novels-(hi)stories of the war that have been published in the last thirty years.
