Nikos Kazantzakis (Columbia essays on modern writers)

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Bien, Peter

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Columbia University Press

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.
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Kazantzakis and Linguistic Revolution in Greek Literature (Princeton Essays in Literature)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Princeton University Press

"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.

Kazantzakis: Politics of the Spirit (Princeton Modern Greek Studies)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

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.

Kazantzakis, Volume 2: Politics of the Spirit (Princeton Modern Greek Studies)

Kazantzakis, Volume 1: Politics of the Spirit (Princeton Modern Greek Studies)

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.

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 paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback 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.

Book by Bien, Peter, Rassias, John, Yiannakou-Bien, Chrysanthi

Workbook for Demotic Greek I: Providing Supplementary Exercises in Writing and Spelling, Complementing the Oral-Aural Emphasis of the Text

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Univ Pr of New England

Integrated sequel to DEMOTIC GREEK I for second-year students uses scenarios and readings based on authentic Greek texts drawn from folktales, ballads, and writers such as Herodotus, Kazantzakis, Koraes, Myrivilis, and Seferis.

Demotic Greek II: The Flying Telephone Booth

Rassias, John

Yiannakou-Bien, Chrysanthi

Alexiou, Christos

University Press of New England

Integrated sequel to DEMOTIC GREEK I for second-year students uses scenarios and readings based on authentic Greek texts drawn from folktales, ballads, and writers such as Herodotus, Kazantzakis, Koraes, Myrivilis, and Seferis.

Workbook for Demotic Greek II: The Flying Telephone Booth

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Nikos Kazantzakis (Columbia essays on modern writers)

Kazantzakis and Linguistic Revolution in Greek Literature (Princeton Essays in Literature)

Kazantzakis: Politics of the Spirit (Princeton Modern Greek Studies)

Kazantzakis, Volume 2: Politics of the Spirit (Princeton Modern Greek Studies)

Kazantzakis, Volume 1: Politics of the Spirit (Princeton Modern Greek Studies)

Kazantzakis and Linguistic Revolution in Greek Literature (Princeton Essays in Literature)

Kazantzakis and Linguistic Revolution in Greek Literature (Princeton Essays in Literature)

Workbook for Demotic Greek I: Providing Supplementary Exercises in Writing and Spelling, Complementing the Oral-Aural Emphasis of the Text

Demotic Greek II: The Flying Telephone Booth

Workbook for Demotic Greek II: The Flying Telephone Booth