Chapter Three. Spain

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Technical Notes xix
6. Chapter One. Kazantzakis’s Attraction to Fascism and Nazism in the 1930s 1
7. Chapter Two. Travel Writing 16
8. Chapter Three. Spain 22
9. Chapter Four. Journey to the Morea 33
10. Chapter Five. Greek Politics, 1922–1936; Metaxas 43
11. Chapter Six. Writings Ca. 1935–1939: Jardin des rochers 60
12. Chapter Seven. Writings Ca. 1935–1939: Othello Returns 81
13. Chapter Eight. Writings Ca. 1935–1939: Melissa 86
14. Chapter Nine. Writings Ca. 1935–1939: Julian The Apostate 100
15. Chapter Ten. Period 1940–1944: The Albanian Campaign And Axis Occupation 111
16. Chapter Eleven. Buddha 134
17. Chapter Twelve. Aléxis Zorbás: A Philosophical Interpretation 144
18. Chapter Thirteen. Alexis Zorbas: A Political Interpretation 157
19. Chapter Fourteen. Prometheus Trilogy And Greekness 165
20. Chapter Fifteen. Kapodistrias 197
21. Chapter Sixteen. Constantine Palaiologos 224
22. Chapter Seventeen. Athens, October 1944–June 1946 237
23. Chapter Eighteen. London and Paris, 2 June 1946–2 June 1948 273
24. Chapter Nineteen. Sodom and Gomorrah 279
25. Chapter Twenty. The Political Comprehensiveness of Christ Recrucified 292
26. Chapter Twenty-One. The Fratricides 328
27. Chapter Twenty-Two. Kouros 356
28. Chapter Twenty-Three. Christopher Columbus: Kazantzakis’s Final Play 363
29. Chapter Twenty-Four. O Kapetán Mihalis: An Epic Manqué 372
30. Chapter Twenty-Five. Kazantzakis’s Long Apprenticeship to Christian Themes 394
31. Chapter Twenty-Six. The Last Temptation as a Religious Novel 428
32. Chapter Twenty-Seven. Is the Last Temptation a Religious Novel or a Political Novel? 442
33. Chapter Twenty-Eight. Kazantzakis’s Meta-Christian Saint Francis as a Model of Soul-Force Creating His Own Fate 453
34. Chapter Twenty-Nine. Report to Greco 524
35. Appendix. Kazantzakis and Women 547
36. Notes 551
37. Bibliography 583
38. Index 603