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CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION 
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characterised as “national” author as well
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. Stratis Doukas’s work apart from his 
first story 
Η ιστορία ενός αιχμαλώτου
(The Story of a Captive) in 1929 left no impact 
at all and Photis Kontoglou, although a fairly prolific writer, came to be much better 
known as an artist, chiefly of icons and church decoration in a distinctive neo-
Byzantine manner. Unlike the Turkish case this “Asia Minor literature” is not 
generally regarded as constituting a distinct school; Myrivilis and Venezis, who 
achieved the most substantial literary reputations, started as members of the “Aeolian 
School” of Mytilini
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are thought of rather as belonging with numerous others who 
did not engage with Asia Minor themes to the so-called “generation of the thirties”, 
which in prose consolidated the use of a neutral demotic close in form to urban 
speech and tended to works of novel rather than novella, the prevalent form of prose 
literature at the time; while in both poetry and prose it was this generation of writers 
which imported modernism to Greece.
The works in the first period of Asia Minor literature in Greek concentrate on the 
sufferings of the Christians during the war and as refugees immediately after. After 
Tο Νούμερο 31328
(Number 31328, 1931) which describes his months in the labour 
battalions Venezis wrote 
Γαλήνη 
(Serenity, 1939) whose subject is the life of 
refugees in a then remote region of Attica. With his third, most popular and most 
translated of his Asia Minor novels, 
Αιολική Γη
(Aeolian Earth 1943) Venezis points 
the way to the second period of the Asia Minor literature whose predominant subject 
is life in Anatolia before the war. The best known works of this period are 
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Tsiropoulos, 44-45 
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Beaton,134, Pentzopoulos, 216-219 

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