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- Title
The Empire Awaits the Barbarians: A New Perspective.
- Authors
Arampatzidou, Lena
- Abstract
When Nikos Kazantzakis traveled to Alexandria as a newspaper correspondent in 1927, a most interesting part of his travel was the visit he paid to C. P. Cavafy at his house. The encounter of the two major Greek writers was narrated by Kazantzakis in a travel article on Cavafy. This travel text interacts mainly with Cavafy's poem "Waiting for the Barbarians" and provides the space for a new approach to Cavafy's text. Introducing the themes of the nomad/barbarian and the empire, later found in the perspective of the theories of nomadology and glocalization, Kazantzakis's travelogue reterritorializes Cavafy's poetry and its scholarship, and provides a new space for the generic identities of texts.
- Subjects
KAZANTZAKIS, Nikos, 1883-1957; TRAVEL writing; CAVAFY, Constantine, 1863-1933; WAITING for the Barbarians (Poem : Cavafy); MODERN Greek authors -- 20th century -- Biography; LITERARY criticism; GREEK poetry; NIETZSCHE, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900
- Publication
Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 2011, Vol 29, Issue 2, p171
- ISSN
0738-1727
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mgs.2011.0021