Kazantzakis, Volume 2 : : Politics of the Spirit / / Peter Bien.

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• VerfasserIn: Bien, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Modern Greek Studies ; 23
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 3 line illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Technical Notes --; Chapter One. Kazantzakis's Attraction to Fascism and Nazism in the 1930s --; Chapter Two. Travel Writing --; Chapter Three. Spain --; Chapter Four. Journey to the Morea --; Chapter Five. Greek Politics, 1922-1936; Metaxas --; Chapter Six. Writings Ca. 1935-1939: Jardin des rochers --; Chapter Seven. Writings Ca. 1935-1939: Othello Returns --; Chapter Eight. Writings Ca. 1935-1939: Melissa --; Chapter Nine. Writings Ca. 1935-1939: Julian The Apostate --; Chapter Ten. Period 1940-1944: The Albanian Campaign And Axis Occupation --; Chapter Eleven. Buddha --; Chapter Twelve. Aléxis Zorbás: A Philosophical Interpretation --; Chapter Thirteen. Alexis Zorbas: A Political Interpretation --; Chapter Fourteen. Prometheus Trilogy And Greekness --; Chapter Fifteen. Kapodistrias --; Chapter Sixteen. Constantine Palaiologos --; Chapter Seventeen. Athens, October 1944-June 1946 --; Chapter Eighteen. London and Paris, 2 June 1946-2 June 1948 --; Chapter Nineteen. Sodom and Gomorrah --; Chapter Twenty. The Political Comprehensiveness of Christ Recrucified --; Chapter Twenty-One. The Fratricides --; Chapter Twenty-Two. Kouros --; Chapter Twenty-Three. Christopher Columbus: Kazantzakis's Final Play --; Chapter Twenty-Four. O Kapetán Mihalis: An Epic Manqué --; Chapter Twenty-Five. Kazantzakis's Long Apprenticeship to Christian Themes --; Chapter Twenty-Six. The Last Temptation as a Religious Novel --; Chapter Twenty-Seven. Is the Last Temptation a Religious Novel or a Political Novel? --; Chapter Twenty-Eight. Kazantzakis's Meta-Christian Saint Francis as a Model of Soul-Force Creating His Own Fate --; Chapter Twenty-Nine. Report to Greco --; Appendix. Kazantzakis and Women --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400824427; 9783110662580; 9783110413434; 9783110442502; 9783110459531
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400824427
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Peter Bien.

Putting Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis's vast output into the context of his lifelong spiritual quest and the turbulent politics of twentieth-century Greece, Peter Bien argues that Kazantzakis was a deeply flawed genius--not always artistically successful, but a remarkable figure by any standard. This is the second and final volume of Bien's definitive and monumental biography of Kazantzakis (1883-1957). It covers his life after 1938, the period in which he wrote Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ, the novels that brought him his greatest fame. A demonically productive novelist, poet, playwright, travel writer, autobiographer, and translator, Kazantzakis was one of the most important Greek writers of the twentieth century and the only one to achieve international recognition as a novelist. But Kazantzakis's writings were just one aspect of an obsessive struggle with religious, political, and intellectual problems. In the 1940s and 1950s, a period that included the Greek civil war and its aftermath, Kazantzakis continued this engagement with undiminished energy, despite every obstacle, producing in his final years novels that have become world classics.