Apartment in Athens

Description:

Like Wescott's extraordinary novella The Pilgrim Hawk (which Susan Sontag described in The New Yorker as belonging "among the treasures of 20th-century American literature"), Apartment in Athens concerns an unusual triangular relationship. In this story about a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who must share their living quarters with a German officer, Wescott stages an intense and unsettling drama of accommodation and rejection, resistance and compulsion - an account of political oppression and spiritual struggle that is also a parable about the costs of closeted identity.

subjects: Fiction,  Triangles (Interpersonal relations),  Apartment houses,  Germans,  History,  Fictional Works,  Interpersonal Relations,  Warfare,  Fiction, war & military,  Fiction, psychological,  Greece, fiction,  Fiction, general

Places: Greece,  Athens (Greece)

Times: Occupation, 1941-1944