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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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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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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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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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Novel and Philosophy for Nikos Kazantzakis
Dirasat: Human and Social Sciences, 2022The research extrapolates the great interconnectedness between literature and philosophy of Nikos Kazantzakis. We cannot lose sight of the great connection between literature and philosophy at the moment of the emergence of philosophical thought in the Greeks from the so-called moment of establishment, and this relationship continued until the current ...
Abdelkrim Anayat, Zaid Al-Zuriqat
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A Nietzschean Asceticism. The Case of Kazantzakis
estetica. studi e ricerche, 2019Il saggio esamina la teoria dell'ascesi nel poeta e filosofo greco N. Kazantzakis, di cui mostra il rapporto con il libro giovanile sul pensiero di Nietzsche e le conseguenza sul piano delle concezioni etiche e politiche.
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Nikos Kazantzakis in Nederland
Tetradio, 2018In 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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The Poetics of Biodiversity: Kazantzakis and Crete
2021There are precious pictures of Nikos Kazantzakis and Albert Schweitzer enjoying a forest picnic together somewhere in Europe, long ago. Both men seem to be grinning. They know something. Neither the author of Zorba the Greek nor the Doctor who spent much of his life in West Africa helping people and other animals was a nihilist, not at all.
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Coscinomancy in Theocritus and Kazantzakis
Mnemosyne, 1978"The idea that modern Greece can have any teaching to impart concerning the beliefs of more than two thousand years ago seems seldom to have been entertained". These words, written by J. C. Lawson at the beginning of his pioneering study Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion (Cambridge 1910; reprinted 1964) over half a century ago now, may ...
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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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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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Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 2010
Nikos Kazantzakis's travel writing spans his entire life and accounts for some of his earliest writing and his last published work before his death. Along with the work of Kostas Ouranis, it has established him as one of the earliest exponents of a literary vein of this genre in Greece that coincided with a prolific period of his travel writing in the ...
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Nikos Kazantzakis's travel writing spans his entire life and accounts for some of his earliest writing and his last published work before his death. Along with the work of Kostas Ouranis, it has established him as one of the earliest exponents of a literary vein of this genre in Greece that coincided with a prolific period of his travel writing in the ...
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