2 edition of Nikos Kazantzakis and his Odyssey found in the catalog.
Nikos Kazantzakis and his Odyssey
Panteles Prebelakes
Published
1961
by Simon and Schuster in New York
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Written in
Edition Notes
Translation of Ho poietes kai to poiema tes Odysseias. Bibliography: p. 171-191.
| The Physical Object | |
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| Pagination | 192 p. ; |
| Number of Pages | 192 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL19163742M |
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Nikos Kazantzakis. The Greek author, journalist, and statesman Nikos Kazantzakis () is considered the foremost figure in modern Greek literature. His work is marked by his search for God and immortality. Nikos Kazantzakis was born on Feb. 18, , in the town of Hērákleion, Crete, where he received his elementary and secondary. While it covers all many of his works, it focuses on The Odyssey and Kazantzakis' own odyssey: "Kazantzakis' theology is then both radically Christian and non-Christian. He has rightly stressed the need for freedom in our struggle to find meaning in life." A review of the book in TIME magazine Nikos Kazantzakis (Καζαντζάκη) Picture source.
2. Nikos Kazantzakis's traveling book: Japan - China with an afterword by Eleni N. Kazantzakis about Nikos Kazantzakis's last journey () to China - Japan, by "Difros"Publications, Athens, 3. P. Prevelakis, "The Poet and the Poem of the Odyssey" 10, publ. "Estia", Athens, 4. Nikos Kazantzakis (Template:Lang-el; Febru – Octo ) was a Greek writer and philosopher, celebrated for his novel Zorba the Greek, considered his magnum became known globally after the release of the Michael Cacoyannis film Zorba the Greek, based on the gained renewed fame with the Martin Scorsese adaptation of his book The Last Temptation of Nationality: Greek.
Nikos Kazantzakis has 87 books on Goodreads with ratings. Nikos Kazantzakis’s most popular book is Zorba the Greek. The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel This book is incredibly well done. Kazantzakis' use of metaphor is the best that I have ever seen.
If I may say so without risk, I honestly believe that this is actually much better than the original one by Homer. And to top it off it is also quite humorous. Read by: The Odyssey of Nikos Kazantzakis is an epic, book poem, based on Homer’s Odyssey.
It is a hymn to the fragile glory of humans and a recognition of the fact that human happiness always contains sadness and loss. An authentic, unfiltered reflection of Kazantzakis’ ideology and metaphysical concerns, highlighting the importance of struggle.
Kazantzakis lops off the last two sections of Homer's Odyssey and grafts onto it his own modern sequel. It This is one of the greatest accomplishments of world literature, and it is a tragedy that it is not better known; most people have heard of Kazantzakis' Zorba The /5.
Nikos Kazantzakis (–) is the author of Zorba the Greek, The Last Temptation of Christ, and the modern Greek epic Odyssey. Odysseus Makridis is Assistant Professor in Philosophy and the Humanities at Fairleigh Dickinson University and the translator of Letters and Sayings of Epicurus.
In his book entitled The Ulysses theme, W. Stanford () traces the permutations of Odysseus in literature through almost three thousand years of development, and considers Kazantzakis's Odyssey and James Joyce's Ulysses as "the most elaborate portraits of Odysseus in the whole post-Homeric tradition.".
Nikos Kazantzakis ( - ) One of the most important Greek writers, poets and philosophers of the 20th century, was born in Iraklion in In he graduated from the Athens Law School and continued his studies in Paris (). During the Balkan Wars he fought as.
The Greek Minster of Education inKazantzakis was also a dramatist, translator, poet, and travel writer. Among his most famous works are, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, The Last Temptation of Christ, and Saviors of God.
He died in October Nikos Kazantzakis was born in Crete in He studied literature and art in Germany and Italy, philosophy under Henri Bergson in Paris and received his law degree from the University of Athens.
The Greek Minster of Education inKazantzakis was also a dramatist, translator, poet, and travel ed on: Septem NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS was born in Crete in and died in Germany in Long famous in his native Greece, he received immediate acclaim in the United States as a master of world literature with the publication, inof The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel.
Kazantzakis considered his Odyssey: A Modern Sequel to be his greatest work; there is a case to be made that it is one of the greatest literary works ever. It was composed over the course of seven drafts fromand it consists of 33, lines of syllable verse in Modern Greek, chocked full of metaphor, simile, and obscure dialect.
Nikos Kazantzakis was born in Crete in He studied literature and art in Germany and Italy, philosophy under Henri Bergson in Paris and received his law degree from the University of Athens.
The Greek Minster of Education inKazantzakis was 5/5(2). The Greek Minster of Education inKazantzakis was also a dramatist, translator, poet, and travel writer.
Among his most famous works are, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, The Last Temptation of Christ, and Saviors of God. He died in October Released on: Ma Nikos Kazantzakis, a Greek philosopher and writer, lived in the late 19th and early 20th century.
He is most famous for his novel, ‘Zorba the Greek’, with his worldwide fame largely tied to the novel’s interpretation as a critically and popularly acclaimed film in the s. Additional Physical Format: Online version: Prevelakēs, Pantelēs, Nikos Kazantzakis and his Odyssey. New York, Simon and Schuster, In The Odyssey, written by Homer in about b.c.e., Odysseus is first and foremost a family man; in this modern version, which begins after Odysseus’ murder of the suitors in book 22 of Homer.
Nikos Kazantzakis began work on his modern sequel to Homer's Odyssey inpublishing it in after drafting seven different versions. Kazantzakis considered this his most important work. Following the structure of Homer's Odyssey, it is divided into 24 rhapsodies, consisting of 33, syllable lines.
Anyone who has read, or tried to read, Kazantzakis' Odyssey will welcome this interpretation and ""guided tour"", which opens with a synopsis of Odysseus' adventures, his interminable travels and eventual disintegration into the nothingness which is the focal point of his belief. Furthermore, in the words of Kimon Friar, scholar, friend of Nikos Kazantzakis and translator of Saviors of God and The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel 7 in English: “No religious dogma, no political ideology may claim Nikos Kazantzakis.
His works will always be a heresy to any political or religious faith which exists today or which may be. Thought to be one of the most important Greek writers, poets and philosophers of the 20th century, Nikos Kazantzakis was born on Februr in Heraklion, Crete.
He graduated in from the Athens Law School and continued his studies in Paris (). He fought as a volunteer in the Greek Army during the Balkan Wars.
Nikos Kazantzakis was born in Megalokastro (now Heraklion, Crete) inwhen under Turkish rule. His father was a farmer. The family moved to Naxos when Kazantzakis was a teenager and he attended a Franciscan school where he learned French and Italian. Book Review: A Neglected Masterpiece: Nikos Kazantzakis’ The Odyssey.
Posted on Ma by wkhugel “How much more ancient is the heart’s deep root, and mind is but a last, last bloom of little memory! The heart wants to recount what it has seen and suffered, but stutters, mute, and cannot brim with a single word; it hops round in.Nikos Kazantzakis The Greek author, journalist, philosopher and statesman Nikos Kazantzakis is the foremost figure in modern Greek literature.
His work is marked by his search for God and immortality. Born in Crete in he spent much of his life living and traveling in Germany, the USSR, France, Japan, and Communist China.
