ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΟΙ ΦΥΛΑΚΙΣΜΕΝΟΙ ΣΤΟ „ΛΟΙΜΟ“ ΤΟΥ ΑΝΤΡΕΑ ΦΡΑΓΚΙΑ

Abstract

The present paper explores the construction of the characters of prisoners used by the Greek post-war novelist Andreas Fragkias in his third novel Plague. His third novel is usually described as allegorical and presents several peculiarities in terms of characters. There are many prisoners and the scope of this paper does not allow us to examine them all. For this research we have selected four characters that appear more often than the others. The theo- retical framework we use is by Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan. Frangias gives the reader the free- dom to draw his own conclusions about the behavior of the characters and their motivations throughout his work, and we believe that we have proved it in the present paper, as well. Such a narration is usually characterized by significantly more indirect presentations than direct definitions, and the four characters we have examined here undoubtedly show the latter.