List of works Travel writing | Spain, translated Summary information Kazantzakis’ impressions from his travels in Spain in 1932-33 and 1936. Appeared in an early form in I Kathimerini newspaper (21.5-3.6.1933 and 24.11.1936-17.1.1937). The work incorporated impressions from the author’s first ever journey to Spain in 1926, which Kazantzakis reworked while on Aegina in 1934. …
List of works Travel writing | Travels II in China and Japan Summary information Kazantzakis’ impressions from his journey to China and Japan in 1935. Appeared in an early form in the Acropolis newspaper (9.6-19.10.1935). Editions from 1958 onwards include an epilogue by Eleni Kazantzakis on the last journey to Japan and China in 1957. …
List of works Travel writing | Travels III. England Summary information Kazantzakis’ impressions from his travels in England. The book was written on Aegina in 1940. Editions from 1958 onwards include an afterword entitled “The Fortunes of an Empire”; which had appeared in Nea Estia (vol. 56, issue 653, 15.9.1954), recording Kazantzakis’ revised view of …
List of works Travel writing | Travels I in Russia Summary information Kazantzakis’ impressions from his two journeys to Russia (the Soviet Union) in 1925 and 1927. Impressions from his first journey in 1925-26 appeared in an early form in Eleftheros Logos (November – December 1925) and Proia (8-14.1.1928). During the Occupation he reworked the …
List of works Travel writing | A chronicle of three journeys in the aftermath of the revolution Summary information Kazantzakis’ impressions from his two journeys to Russia (the Soviet Union) in 1925 and 1927. Impressions from his first journey in 1925-26 appeared in an early form in Eleftheros Logos (November – December 1925) and Proia (8-14.1.1928). …
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List of works Fiction | Toda-Raba Plot This work condenses Kazantzakis’ impressions of the Soviet Union and his experiences there. The protagonist is a Negro named Toda Raba, which is the Hebrew for “Thank you”. He is flanked by seven further characters, each of whom is of different descent and cultural background: Sou-Ki, an aged …
List of works Fiction | Simposion Plot A group of long-standing friends gathers together at a seaside cottage: Arpagos (‘the Plunderer’: Kazantzakis), Petros (Sikelianos), Kosmas (Ion Dragoumis), Myros (Myron Gounalakis or, according to Elli Alexiou, Michele Gounalakis, a long-standing friend of Kazantzakis from Switzerland). After dinner, they ask Arpagos to speak to them of his …
List of works Fiction | Pinakothiki and Panathenia Description & information In the interval between completing Serpent and Lily and leaving for Paris, Kazantzakis published a series of literary texts in Pinakothiki and Panathenia magazines, which he signed under the pseudonym Karma Nirvami. Most of these are short and are termed “prose poems” or “prose …
List of works Fiction | At the Palaces of Knossos Plot A children’s novel on Theseus’ struggle with the Minotaur, concluding with the end of the Minoan Empire. Writing history Probably written on Aegina in 1940, to earn much-needed income; Fanis I. Kakridis dates it to between 1914 and 1922. Greek editions N. Kazantzakis, Sta …
List of works Fiction | Serpent and Lily Plot Having enjoyed what life has had to offer him, a pleasure and beauty-worshipping artist is gradually overcome by the idea of death. He decides that his death, just like his life, will be connected with carnal love and beauty. He therefore calls on his mistress and …