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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... turn to great literature — all great art — for the challenge of complexity , for the shock of recognition , for the bracing bath of humanity in all its weakness and greed and illicit longing , qualities that may not get us into heaven ...
... turn to great literature — all great art — for the challenge of complexity , for the shock of recognition , for the bracing bath of humanity in all its weakness and greed and illicit longing , qualities that may not get us into heaven ...
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... turn its relation to the other strains of thought found in The Last Temptation . Vrasidas Karalis examines some of these ... turns us toward a more non - Christian reading of The Last Temptation . First , he questions the conventional ...
... turn its relation to the other strains of thought found in The Last Temptation . Vrasidas Karalis examines some of these ... turns us toward a more non - Christian reading of The Last Temptation . First , he questions the conventional ...
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... turn of the century for Theotokis and Hatzopoulos , for example — because of his skepti- cism . Thus it is no surprise to find Kazantzakis citing him as early as 1909 in his essay " / epistími ekhreokópise ? " There he calls Renan an ...
... turn of the century for Theotokis and Hatzopoulos , for example — because of his skepti- cism . Thus it is no surprise to find Kazantzakis citing him as early as 1909 in his essay " / epistími ekhreokópise ? " There he calls Renan an ...
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... turn to folklore proper , we find in the demotic ballads a curious detail employed by Kazantzakis : gypsies forge the special nails used in cru- cifixions . A vagrant smith who forges the crucifixion nails appears as well in the ...
... turn to folklore proper , we find in the demotic ballads a curious detail employed by Kazantzakis : gypsies forge the special nails used in cru- cifixions . A vagrant smith who forges the crucifixion nails appears as well in the ...
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... turns of phrase " kingdom of heaven " and " I am . " Also , more than fifty individual sayings by Jesus from the canonical Gospels can be identified , including six para- bles.21 The Gospel of Matthew represents the greatest contributor ...
... turns of phrase " kingdom of heaven " and " I am . " Also , more than fifty individual sayings by Jesus from the canonical Gospels can be identified , including six para- bles.21 The Gospel of Matthew represents the greatest contributor ...
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