Abstract
In the monograph entitled Τραύμα και μνήμη, Η πεζογραφία των πολιτικών προσφύγων, Πόλις 2010 [Trauma and Memory, the Fiction of Political Exiles], Venetia Apostolidou has tried to grasp, arrange and review a similar experience with Greek exile literature, although from the opposite ideological side. This is literature of Greek writers of the Left who fled to socialist countries during the Civil War in 1948.
Greek political refugees form a rather compact leftist group in the countries of the communist bloc whose destinies have been systematically explored only in the last decade5 when both time and society have become ripe and the wound of disillusion has healed.