The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis /

The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis / / Nikos Kazantzakis; Peter Bien.

The life of Nikos Kazantzakis--the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ--was as colorful and eventful as his fiction. And nowhere is his life revealed more fully or surprisingly than in his letters. Edited and translated by Kazantzakis scholar Peter Bien, this is the most comp...

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VerfasserIn:
Kazantzakis, Nikos,
TeilnehmendeR:
Bien, Peter,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2012
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Modern Greek Studies ; 25
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction / Bien, Peter
  • Chronology
  • The Letters
  • I. At Law School in Athens
  • II. Pursuing Graduate Studies in Paris
  • III. Politically Active in Greece
  • IV. Fleeing Greece; Resident in Austria, Germany, Italy
  • V. Meets Eleni Samiou; Begins Odyssey; Divorces Galatea; Travels to Soviet Union
  • VI. Resident Almost Eighteen Months in the Soviet Union
  • VII. Trying to Make a Career Outside of Greece, Especially in Spain
  • VIII. Back in Greece, Having Failed Elsewhere; Traveling in Far East; Odyssey Completed and Published; Visit to England
  • IX. Confined to Aegina during the German Occupation; Writes Zorba and Many Plays; Begins to Translate Homer's Iliad
  • X. In Athens during Round Two of the Civil War; Resolves to Help Liberated Greece via Political Action; Briefly a Cabinet Minister; Marries Eleni Samiou
  • XI. Final Exile: Resides Briefly in England, Then in France; Writes Final Novels and Plays; Travels to China
  • References Cited
  • Index

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