Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The outbreak of the debt crisis in 2009 intensified the social contradictions in contemporary Greece, with frequent occurrences of anarchist movements and vicious social security cases. After the bank robbery in Paros, anarchist Tasos Theofilou was wrongly arrested by the antiterrorist police and imprisoned for nearly five years. After his dismissal, he wrote about his experiences in prison and made them public. The Thirty-Two Steps and other realistic works expose the judicial dark curtain of contemporary Greek jails, with the author's personal experience of the "big wall" in the background, emphasizing the extreme state and sharp contradiction of the prison that he witnessed when he was detained, convicted and served. This paper analyzes the literary narrative style of the unjust prison experience from the aspects of the literary narrative source, writing technique thought expression and explores the connotation behind the Greek "Big Wall Literature" through his works. Although the authorities claim that the debt crisis has been relieved, Theofilou's tragic narrative works still reflect his reflections on the judicial society, the source of Western politics, under the shadow of the crisis.
DOI: 10.54097/mzv7bd53
Authors: Jiguang Gan, Danli Xiao
Institution: Xi'an International Studies University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405842806