The Flaw

Published in 1965, two years before Greece would become a dictatorship, Antonis Samarakis's The Flaw is a satire/allegory involving a nameless man who is arrested at a cafe and detained for some unspecified crime. The title of the book (which refers to an innate human capacity for kindness, a flaw from the perspective of an authoritarian regime) makes clear Samarakis's somewhat crudely-expressed political message.