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- Title
Conflictual Mythological Paradigms in Nikos Kazantzakis's Dramas.
- Authors
DRĂGULĂNESCU, Amalia-Florentina
- Abstract
Broadly speaking, both in his novels, Report to El Greco, The Fratricides, even Christ Recrucified, as well as dramas (e.g. Kouros, Melissa), the Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis transfigures certain classic ancient paradigms. These relate in particular to conflicting situations, thus understanding the supremacy of several creators compared with the aspiration towards the perfection of some creatures, as the eternal dominance of the human substance. In other words, beyond the autobiographical configuration, though unacknowledged by the author, his writings bear the mark of an agony that is finally filled with serenity, corresponding to an ideal apathanatismos. Always referring to the heroes and demigods (Dyonissos, Theseu, Ariadne, Minotaur, etc.), this writer translates, on the one hand, paradoxically, the experiences of modern man into a classical, almost austere antiquity in a kind of reversible katharsis over time, and on the other he completes all the ancient protagonists with their modern features, and more with some personal characteristics. Therewith, the traditional and modernistic symbols, myths, or meanings are melted in an innovative (tehné) hermeneutic crucible, through which, either by a sustained struggle, or a sophisticated fight, new creatures as they are encountered in most Kazantzakian dramas are contrived.
- Subjects
KAZANTZAKIS, Nikos, 1883-1957; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; DEMIGODS
- Publication
Hermeneia: Journal of Hermeneutics, Art Theory & Criticism, 2018, Issue 21, p259
- ISSN
1453-9047
- Publication type
Article