L’image de la France à travers le roman grec des années 1930

Abstract

In this brief study the portrait of France is examined as it is seen and
expressed through the novels of the 30s. An analysis is made of novels by
Str. Myrivilis, G. Theotokas, St. Xefloudas, Th. Kastanakis, and M. Karagatsis,
in which it is apparent that France still remains for the Greeks a liberal
and democratic country, attracting the youth for its fashion and the free
movement of ideas, a country where human rights are respected. A model
country of bourgeois democracy, France no longer inspires Greek leftist
thought.
Nevertheless, its various literary trends are still imitated by the Greek
novelists who in their majority express the bourgeois mentality.
Finally, Paris is the city representing France (way of life, thinking etc.)
and naturally through this analysis arises the myth of the French men and
women with their main features being their care for their appearance, their
wide education and their liberal ideas.