Scandalizing Jesus?: Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation of Christ Fifty Years OnDarren J. N. Middleton Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 03 նոյ, 2005 թ. - 288 էջ 2005 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Nikos Kazantzakis' The Last Temptation of Christ. Since Kazantzakis ranks as one of the twentieth century's most important European writers, and given that this particular work of his has garnered so much publicity, this collection of essays re-assesses the novel, though not forgetting the movie, in light of one half century's worth of criticism and reception history. Clergy and laity alike have denounced this novel. When it first appeared, the Greek Orthodox Church condemned it, the Vatican placed it on its Index of Forbidden Texts, and conservative-evangelicals around the world protested its allegedly blasphemous portrayal of a human, struggling Messiah who "succumbs" to the devil's final snare while on the Cross: the temptation to happiness. Assuredly, the sentiments surrounding this novel, at least in the first thirty years or so, were very strong. When Martin Scorcese decided in the early 1980s to adapt the novel for the silver screen, even stronger feelings were expressed. Even today his works are seldom studied in Greece, largely because the Greek government is unable or unwilling to anthologize his material for the national curriculum. After fifty years, however, the time seems right to re-examine the novel, the man, and the film, locating Kazantzakis and his work within an important debate about the relationship between religion and art (literary and cinematic). Until now a book-length assessment of Kazantzakis' novel, and the film it inspired, has not appeared. No such volume is planned to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the novel's publication. For those who work in Kazantzakis studies, a focused anthology like this one is missing from library collections. The volume contains original essays by Martin Scorcese, the film critic Peter Chattaway, and Kazantzakis' translator, Peter A. Bien. |
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... tradition , the power of the Church , and the interests of the clerical profession . All of this means that their work is much less interesting to the general public , and less interesting to me , too , than the work of figures like ...
... tradition , the power of the Church , and the interests of the clerical profession . All of this means that their work is much less interesting to the general public , and less interesting to me , too , than the work of figures like ...
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... tradition's tyranny , or whatever it is that holds us in thrall to the past , functioning like an ax for the frozen sea within.2 Poets and writers often find that they must attend the devil's party before conjuring those characters who ...
... tradition's tyranny , or whatever it is that holds us in thrall to the past , functioning like an ax for the frozen sea within.2 Poets and writers often find that they must attend the devil's party before conjuring those characters who ...
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... tradition yields a fresh understanding of Kazantzakis's own relationship to that tradition , and in turn its relation to the other strains of thought found in The Last Temptation . Vrasidas Karalis examines some of these strains as seen ...
... tradition yields a fresh understanding of Kazantzakis's own relationship to that tradition , and in turn its relation to the other strains of thought found in The Last Temptation . Vrasidas Karalis examines some of these strains as seen ...
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... tradition . His statement to Borje Knos in November 1951 , after he had finished the novel , is relevant to everything I have just been saying : For a whole year I took out of the library at Cannes all the books — those written about ...
... tradition . His statement to Borje Knos in November 1951 , after he had finished the novel , is relevant to everything I have just been saying : For a whole year I took out of the library at Cannes all the books — those written about ...
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... tradition . The purpose — or at least one purpose— for this extensive investigation of mystical experience becomes apparent when we read his notes drawn from an article in the Revue Bleue of March 15 , 1902 , on the relation between ...
... tradition . The purpose — or at least one purpose— for this extensive investigation of mystical experience becomes apparent when we read his notes drawn from an article in the Revue Bleue of March 15 , 1902 , on the relation between ...
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