L’ «inaddolcibile» Ulisse di Nikos Kazantzakis
The protagonist of the Odyssey by the Cretan poet Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957) is an upside-down Ulysses, who is the complete opposite of the “hero of return”. Ithaca and the love for Penelope were no longer enough for him (“My homeland was too narrow for me…”) and after a stop at home, he returned...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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La civiltà cattolica
Year: 2021, Volume: 172, Issue: 4101, Pages: 247-254 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KBK Europe (East) |
| Summary: | The protagonist of the Odyssey by the Cretan poet Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957) is an upside-down Ulysses, who is the complete opposite of the “hero of return”. Ithaca and the love for Penelope were no longer enough for him (“My homeland was too narrow for me…”) and after a stop at home, he returned to his journey, as Dante’s reading of the Homeric hero continues. The poet loves the language of the people and for his 33,333 verses, divided into 24 cantos, he uses the words of shepherds, farmers and fishermen that have been preserved in the villages of Crete and the Aegean islands. Ulysses is a visionary, but his world is not abstract: it is always radically sensual, muscular, and instinctive. It is in this fashion that the poet begins an analysis of man’s great existential questions and expresses a burning and tragic desire for truth. |
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| ISSN: | 0009-8167 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: La civiltà cattolica
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