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As we can see, literature supposes to Ioanna Tsatsos' a way of expressing her own conscience and
to give an evidence of the time she lived, so that each of the autobiographical episodes she narrates
is also an episode of the history of Greece.
In this sense, her work may be taken as a historical perspective. We could even say that works
such as The Sword´s Fierce Edge, or Moments and Memories are, without any doubt, a real historical
document of the twentieth century, because one of the evident objectives of the author is to give a
testimony of events to the collective memory.
Maila García AMOROS
maila_gr@yahoo.es
Notes
1
Many wrong dates for the year of birth of the author have been pointed out, such as 1904
[Constantinos Tsiropoulos (ed.), Τo φέγγος της Ιωάννας Τσάτσου (Athens: Estia, 2002), 235] or
even 1909. However, nowadays we know most certainly that she was born in 1902. Vid.
Gennadius Library Archives, II. B´ File 7, Ioannas Tsatsos' Letters to George Seferis (1919‐1927).
2
Constantinos Tsiropoulos (ed.), Τo φέγγος της Ιωάννας Τσάτσου (Athens: Estia, 2002), 235.
3
Constantinos Karamanlis (1907‐1998) was a four‐times Prime Minister, twice President of the
Hellenic Republic and a towering figure of Greek Politics, whose political career spanned the
latter half of the 20th century.
4
George Kartalis (1908‐1957) was a Greek politician. He was repeatledly, minister, leader of a
political party and member of the Resistence Organization EKKA with Colonel Dimitrios Psarros.
5
Arzobishop Damaskinos (1891‐1949) was the arzobishop of Athens and all Greece from 1941
until his death. He was also the regent of Greece between the pull‐out of the German occupation
forces in 1944 and the return of the King George II to Greece in 1946. He worked very hard during
the period of the Occupation to save Greek and Jewish people from the persecutions.
6
Konstantinos Tsatsos, Λογοδοσία μιας ζωής, (Athens: Oi Ekdoseis ton Filon, 2000), 554.
7
As Commando Piazza were known the offices of Italian forces in Athens.
8
Ioanna Tsatsos, Eκτελεσθεντες επί Kατοχής (Athens: Oi Ekdoseis ton Filon, 1976), 13.
9
Ioanna Tsatsos, Πορεία (Athens: Ikaros, 1982), 12.
10
Philipe Lejeune, Le Pact autobiographique (Paris: Presses Univeritaires de France, 1975), 30.
11
Ioanna Tsatsos, The Sword´s Fierce Edge. A journal of the occupation of Greece, 1941‐1944,
trans. Jean Demos (Vanderbilt: Vanderbilt University Press, 1969), 9.
12
Maila García Amorós, «Ioanna Tsatsos y la técnica del diario», Estudios Neogriegos 11, 2008,
57‐69.
13
Ioanna Tsatsos, My brother Yorgos Seferis, trans. Jean Demos (Minnesota: Nostos, 1982) XVI.
14
Philipe Lejeune, Le Pact autobiographique (Paris: Presses Univeritaires de France, 1975), 75.
15
Ioanna Tsatsos, Στιγμές και Μμήμες (Athens: Estía, 1988), 67.
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