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The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis

2012
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The Poetics of Biodiversity: Kazantzakis and Crete

2021
There 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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Kazantzakis’ Philosophical and Theological Thought

2018
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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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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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Kazantzakis and biography

Kampos : Cambridge papers in modern Greek, Vol 6 (1998)
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Kazantzakis the Greek?: Travel and Leisure, Hunger and Pathos, Localism and Cosmopolitanism in Nikos Kazantzakis's Journeying

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 and Christ as Hero

Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 2004
This essay addresses the challenges associated with the literary representation of Christ. It analyzes two works by Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ and The Greek Passion, and it argues that Kazantzakis does not claim direct access to the actual historical figure of Jesus.
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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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Kazantzakis's the Last Temptation of Christ

The Explicator, 1989
(1989). Kazantzakis's the Last Temptation of Christ. The Explicator: Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 39-39.
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