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Kazantzakis and America

Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2022
This article traces Kazantzakis’ attitudes towards America in works from the pre- and post-war periods. In doing so, it reveals his growing interest in visiting the country or even settling there for an extended period. The pretexts for such a journey were diverse and variously described by the writer as a means to ‘renew his vision’, to find a secure ...
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Kazantzakis’ religious vision

Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 1996
Although Kazantzakis had a profound religious vision that may even be compatible in some ways with Christianity, he makes certain Christians extraordinarily angry. The most recent incident involved Martin Scorsese’s 1988 film of The Last Temptation. Rev.
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Marxism and Kazantzakis

Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 1977
I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability, to divine which wind is urging all these waves of mankind upward. I bend over the age in which I live, that tiny, imperceptible arc of the vast circle, and struggle to attain a clear view of today’s duty.
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Kazantzakis's Metatheatrical Othello Returns

Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 1996
Metatheater involves a complex relationship between the "real" and the fictive, and between actors and spectators. Kazantzakis's Pirandellian comedy Othello Returns is one type of metatheater. The plot is structured on multiple levels--receptive, metatextual, intertextual, dramatic, real, and archetypal.
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Dostoevsky, Kazantzakis' Unacknowledged Mentor

Comparative Literature, 1969
HE MAIN streams that run through Kazantzakis are those that 1 still flow strongly in the minds of many artists and thinkers of the twentieth century, and even yet determine many currents; however, the very origin of these streams of thought was in the nineteenth century.
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Kazantzakis and the Cinema

Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 1980
Alexis Zorbas unwittingly displays a knowledge of the cinema when he says to the Boss, [‘Anything we couldn’t say with our mouths we said with our feet, our hands, our belly or with wild cries’.] Kazantzakis himself once said the same thing in a different way: ‘To succeed in transforming the abstract concepts into simple, clear images is my great ...
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Nikos Kazantzakis in Nederland

Tetradio, 2018
In 1952, when he was almost seventy years old, Nikos Kazantzakis came to the Netherlands for his one and only visit to the country. The reason behind this sixweek visit was medical. Kazantzakis went to the Diakonessenhuis in Utrecht to get treatment for the eczema that had been troubling him for many years. Kazantzakis himself believed that he suffered
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Kazantzakis and biography

Kampos : Cambridge papers in modern Greek, Vol 6 (1998)
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Nikos Kazantzakis's Novels on Film

Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 2000
The three films made from Kazantzakis's novels distort their sources. Celui qui doit mourir (1956) distorts Kazantzakis's vision because the film, unlike the book, ends with the displaced villagers barricaded behind a rock shooting at their oppressors, which negates everything the book tries to say.
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