Journal of a Novel

In Journal of a Novel, Harry Mark Petrakis reveals personal aspects of his life and work. The complex relationship between writing and living is clearly drawn, and we see at work here the process by which a writer turns his raw experience into art.

The creative process is the subject here, begun while he was engaged in writing his historical novel on the Greek War of Independence, "The Hour of the Bell." It shows a writer fully committed to his craft.

"All the years I have lived, loved and wr...