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Kazantzakis and Linguistic Revolution in Greek Literature
By (Author) Peter Bien
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
889.334
Hardback
304
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
595g
Peter Bien focuses on Kazantzakis' obsession with the demotic, the language "on the lips of the people," showing how it governed his writing, his ambition, and his involvement in Greek politics and educational reform. Kazantzakis' obsession worked against him in his Odyssey and found its natural vehicle only in his translation of Homer's Iliad and