Scandalizing Jesus?: Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation of Christ Fifty Years OnDarren J. N. Middleton Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 3.11.2005 г. - 288 страници 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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... person who reads this novel with an open heart will find themselves born again ! " And this from the mouth of a Texas Pentecostal preacher's kid ! Thank you , Austin , for shattering a stereotype . My current student assistant , Megan A ...
... person who reads this novel with an open heart will find themselves born again ! " And this from the mouth of a Texas Pentecostal preacher's kid ! Thank you , Austin , for shattering a stereotype . My current student assistant , Megan A ...
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... person who found himself in Christ set out to reach God and merge with Him , so that the two might become indis- solubly one . There is no way to reach God but this . Following Christ's bloody tracks , we must fight to transubstantiate ...
... person who found himself in Christ set out to reach God and merge with Him , so that the two might become indis- solubly one . There is no way to reach God but this . Following Christ's bloody tracks , we must fight to transubstantiate ...
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... person for Kazantzakis . In an even bolder move , he claims that the last temptation was not so much a temptation as a dream or even an alternative reality . Finally , he compares Kazantzakis's novel with Jorge Luis Borges's fictional ...
... person for Kazantzakis . In an even bolder move , he claims that the last temptation was not so much a temptation as a dream or even an alternative reality . Finally , he compares Kazantzakis's novel with Jorge Luis Borges's fictional ...
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... persons of faith and those of no faith . While some see it as an example of satanic arrogance , others view it as part of their outlook on God . Either way , people continue to bring to it ques- tions whose answers do not come easily ...
... persons of faith and those of no faith . While some see it as an example of satanic arrogance , others view it as part of their outlook on God . Either way , people continue to bring to it ques- tions whose answers do not come easily ...
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... person — progressed toward the realization of an ideal conception of all that is most elevated in human nature . " We may call [ him ] divine , " says Renan , " in this sense that Jesus is that individual who has caused his species to ...
... person — progressed toward the realization of an ideal conception of all that is most elevated in human nature . " We may call [ him ] divine , " says Renan , " in this sense that Jesus is that individual who has caused his species to ...
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