Ascent: A Profile of Nikos Kazantzakis.(Biography)

From: World and I | Date: March 1, 2004| Author: Congdon, Lee | Copyright information

Lee Congdon writes regularly on modern literature. He is professor of history at James Madison University.

Of the late work of his fellow Cretan Domenicos Theotocopoulos, called El Greco ("The Greek"), Nikos Kazantzakis wrote that "the human soul has become a sword removed from its sheath, the body. And as the Cretan advanced in age, he dared even this: Man, both soul and body, becomes entirely sword. The body grows more and more ethereal, outstretched, transparent, shin...

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