A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
The following versions or editions of Ο
Βασίλης ο Αρβανίτης (Vasilis Arvanitis) were published during
Myrivilis’ lifetime.
1st version: “Ο Βασίλης ο Αρβανίτης”
in three parts in the newspaper
Πρωία, 10, 17, &
2nd version: “Ο Βασίλης ο Αρβανίτης”
in Το γαλάζιο βιβλίο
(Athens: Πυρσός, 1939), pp. 127-162.
This revised and
extended version was included only in this first edition of The Blue Book,
a collection of short stories by Stratis Myrivilis.
It was withdrawn from subsequent editions.
3rd version, 1st edition: Ο
Βασίλης ο Αρβανίτης (Athens: Pegasos, 1943).
This is the first
edition of Vasilis Arvanitis in more or less its final form.
3rd version, 2nd edition: Ο
Βασίλης ο Αρβανίτης (
Τhe text of this second
edition differs slightly from that of the first, but it does not differ
enough for this edition to be regarded as a 4th version.
A comparison of
these first two editions of the novella reveals
numerous differences, all slight, which suggest that Myrivilis used the
opportunity of a second
edition to make corrections and minor
revisions to the
work. This second edition should be
regarded as the definitive version of
the novella, since it represents the author’s last reworking of it.
3rd version, 3rd edition: Ο
Βασίλης ο Αρβανίτης (Athens: Alvin Redman Hellas, 1966).
Due
to illness, Myrivilis was unable to oversee the preparation of this edition,[1]
which uses the text of the first edition rather than the revised text of the
second, and adds a number of errors. Unfortunately all subsequent Greek editions
of Ο Βασίλης ο Αρβανίτης
have been based on this corrupt edition.
Footnotes
G. Valetas, Review of the 1971 edition of Ο Βασίλης ο Αρβανίτης, ed. Mario Vitti (Athens: Ermis, 1971), Aiolika Grammata 2(1972), 79-80.
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