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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.
Contents
Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii Technical Notes xix CHAPTER ONE: KAZANTZAKIS'S ATTRACTION TO FASCISM AND NAZISM IN THE 1930s 1 CHAPTER TWO: TRAVEL WRITING 16 CHAPTER THREE: SPAIN 22 CHAPTER FOUR: JOURNEY TO THE MOREA 33 CHAPTER FIVE: GREEK POLITICS, 1922-1936; METAXAS 43 CHAPTER SIX: WRITINGS CA. 1935-1939: JARDIN DES ROCHERS 60 CHAPTER SEVEN: WRITINGS CA. 1935-1939: OTHELLO RETURNS 81 CHAPTER EIGHT: WRITINGS CA. 1935-1939: MELISSA 86 CHAPTER NINE: WRITINGS CA. 1935-1939: JULIAN THE APOSTATE 100 CHAPTER TEN: PERIOD 1940-1944: THE ALBANIAN CAMPAIGN AND AXIS OCCUPATION 111 CHAPTER ELEVEN: BUDDHA 134 CHAPTER TWELVE: ALEXIS ZORBAS: A PHILOSOPHICAL INTERPRETATION 144 CHAPTER THIRTEEN: ALEXIS ZORBAS: A POLITICAL INTERPRETATION 157 CHAPTER FOURTEEN: PROMETHEUS TRILOGY AND GREEKNESS 165 CHAPTER FIFTEEN: KAPODISTRIAS 197 CHAPTER SIXTEEN: CONSTANTINE PALAIOLOGOS 224 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: ATHENS, OCTOBER 1944-JUNE 1946 237 CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: LONDON AND PARIS, 2 JUNE 1946-2 JUNE 1948 273 CHAPTER NINETEEN: SODOM AND GOMORRAH 279 CHAPTER TWENTY: THE POLITICAL COMPREHENSIVENESS OF CHRIST RECRUCIFIED 292 CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: THE FRATRICIDES 328 CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: KOUROS 356 CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: KAZANTZAKIS'S FINAL PLAY 363 CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: O KAPETAN MIHALIS: AN EPIC MANQUE 372 CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: KAZANTZAKIS'S LONG APPRENTICESHIP TO CHRISTIAN THEMES 394 CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: THE LAST TEMPTATION AS A RELIGIOUS NOVEL 428 CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: IS THE LAST TEMPTATION A RELIGIOUS NOVEL OR A POLITICAL NOVEL? 442 CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: KAZANTZAKIS'S META-CHRISTIAN SAINT FRANCIS AS A MODEL OF SOUL-FORCE CREATING HIS OWN FATE 453 CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: REPORT TO GRECO 524 APPENDIX. KAZANTZAKIS AND WOMEN 547 Notes 551 Bibliography 583 Index 603
