Great Fire of Smyrna in Literature
The novel Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides opens with the Great Fire of Smyrna.
The closing section of Edward Whittemore's Sinai Tapestry takes place during the Great Fire of Smyrna.
Part of the novel "Birds Without Wings" by Louis De Bernieres takes place during the Great Fire of Smyrna.
Part of the novel "The Titan" by Fred Mustard Stewart takes place during the Great Fire of Smyrna.
"On the Quai at Smyrna," a short story published as part of In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway, alludes to the fire of Smyrna:
The strange thing was, he said, how they screamed every night at midnight ... We were in the harbour and they were on the pier and at midnight they started screaming. We used to turn the searchlight on them to quiet them. That always did the trick.
Eric Ambler's novel A Coffin for Dimitrios speaks at length about the event, as the title character witnesses the incident.
Mehmet Coral's İzmir: 13 Eylül 1922 (Izmir:13 September 1922) which is also published in the Greek language by Kedros of Athens/Greece under the title: Πολλές ζωές στη Σμύρνη (Many lives in Izmir).
Robert Byron's travelogue Europe in the Looking Glass contains an eyewitness report, placing the blame upon the Turks.
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