The Odyssey of Kazantzakis as a Cretan and Modernist Work
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Kazantzakis, The Odyssey, Epic poetry, ModernismAbstract
The Odyssey of Nikos Kazantzakis was first published in 1938 and has since been regarded primarily as an old-fashioned long poem. At the same time, his later novels have been precisely linked to modernist fiction and connections have been made between epic poetry and modernism. This article assumes that the arguments presented by scholars addressing these issues can also be applied to the new Odyssey. Thus, this work delves into some of the modernist strategies that the author adopts in this poem: mainly the use of fiction and the mythical method, and the assimilation and manipulation of Cretan (mostly) Minoan elements. This approach not only reveals more parallels between Kazantzakis' Odyssey and European Modernism than previously assumed, but also provides an explanation for the development of such elements in later novels.
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