Kazantzakis, Volume 1: Politics of the Spirit

by Peter A. Bien

Book Overview

"No author who lives in Greece," writes Peter Bien, "can avoid politics." This first volume of his major intellectual biography of Nikos Kazantzakis approaches the distinguished--and controversial--writer by describing his struggle with political questions that were in reality aspects of a fervent religious search.

Beginning with Kazantzakis's early career in fin-de-si cle Paris and his discovery of William James, Nietzsche, and Bergson,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691128804
• ISBN13: 9780691128801
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"