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Tre generationer av Grekiska författare
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ISSN: 0347173X ISBN: 9186098519 Year: 1987 Volume: 47 Publisher: Göteborg : P. Aström,

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Nikos Kazantzakis
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ISBN: 0231035322 Year: 1972 Volume: 62 Publisher: New York ; London : Columbia University Press,


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Kazantzakis and the linguistic revolution in Greek literature
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ISBN: 0691062064 0691619794 069164666X 1400867339 Year: 1972 Publisher: Princeton University press

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Kazantzakis, Volume 2
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ISBN: 1283549948 9786613862396 1400824427 9781400824427 9780691128139 0691128138 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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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.


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Kazantzakis, Volume 1
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ISBN: 1400824419 9781400824410 Year: 2012 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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"No author who lives in Greece," writes Peter Bien, "can avoid politics." This first volume of his major intellectual biography of Nikos Kazantzakis approaches the distinguished--and controversial--writer by describing his struggle with political questions that were in reality aspects of a fervent religious search. Beginning with Kazantzakis's early career in fin-de-siècle Paris and his discovery of William James, Nietzsche, and Bergson, the book continues by describing his experiments with communism in turbulent Greece, his visits to Soviet Russia, and the publication of his epic Odyssey in 1938. Bien demonstrates that politics and religion cannot be separated in Kazantzakis's development. His major concern was personal salvation, but the method he employed to win that salvation was political engagement. Did deliverance lie in nationalism? Communism? Fascism? He eventually rejected each of these possible solutions as morally appalling. Abused by both left and right, he insisted on an "eschatological politics" of spiritual fulfillment. This compelling biography will be essential reading for Kazantzakis scholars and for a wide audience of those who already admire the Greek author's work. In addition, it will provide an introduction to the first three decades of Kazantzakis's career for those who have yet to enjoy such passionate and stirring novels as Zorba the Greek, The Greek Passion, and The Last Temptation of Christ. This first volume provides an introduction to the initial three decades of Kazantzakis's career for those who have enjoyed such vibrant and stirring novels as Zorba the Greek, The Greek Passion, and The Last Temptation of Christ.


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Kazantzakis and Linguistic Revolution in Greek Literature
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ISBN: 069164666X 1400867339 9781400867332 9780691619798 9780691062068 0691619794 9780691646664 Year: 2015 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Peter Bien focuses on Kazantzakis' obsession with the demotic, the language "on the lips of the people," showing how it governed his writing, his ambition, and his involvement in Greek politics and educational reform. Kazantzakis' obsession worked against him in his Odyssey and found its natural vehicle only in his translation of Homer's Iliad and his novels, Zorba the Greek, The Last Temptation of Christ, and The Greek Passion.Originally published in 1972.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Nikos Kazantzakis : novelist
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ISBN: 1853990337 Year: 1989 Publisher: Bristol : Bristol classical press,

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L. P. Hartley
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Year: 1963 Publisher: London : Chatto and Windus,

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Kazantzakēs : hē politikē tou pneumatos
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ISBN: 960524134X Year: 2001 Publisher: Ērakleio : Panepistēmiakes Ekdoseis Krētēs,

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Constantine Cavafy
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Year: 1964 Volume: no. 5 Publisher: London : Columbia University Press,

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