Vassilis Vassilikos is Greece's most acclaimed novelist. He has published more than ninety books, including novels, short stories, essays, poetry, and plays. His most famous novel, Z, has been translated into thirty-two languages.
A deft and witty reflection on writing as well as a moving portrait of the artist as political exile. . . . These passages recall Kundera at his most charmingly discursive. Yet whenever the book seems to be taking a reflective, historical direction, the biographer intrudes with ever more fantastical spy-novel details. . . . By turns moving and scathingly satirical . . . Vassilikos has been too rarely translated into English; one can only hope this complex, multilayered novel will change that. -Mary Park, New York Times Book Review