Fratricides kazantzakis biography

  • The Fratricides by the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis recounts the tragic violence that swallowed the Greek countryside in the civil war of the late s.
  • The story is set in Kastellos, a remote village in Macedonia, at the time of the Greek Civil War. The village is controlled by the army, but is being besieged.
  • The Fratricides is set during the Greek civil war, and the title refers to Greeks killing their brother Greeks.

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    The Fratricides

    Synopsis:

    Against the background of the Greek civil war of the late s, Captain Drakos, son of the local priest Father Yanaros, has taken to the mountains with a group of villagers and joined the Communist rebels. It is Holy Week and Father Yanaros feels that he himself is bearing the sins of the world.

    About the Author:

    Nikos Kazantzakis was born in in Herakleion on the island of Crete. During the Cretan revolt of his family was sent to the island of Naxos, where he attended the French School of the Holy Cross. From to he studied law at Athens University. He worked first as a journalist and throughout a long career wrote several plays, travel journals and translations. His remarkable travels began in and there were few countries in Europe or Asia that he didn't visit. He studied Buddhism in Vienna and later belonged to a group of radical intellectuals in Berlin, where he began his great epic The Odyssey, which he completed in He didn't start wri

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    Fratricides (In Greek).

    KAZANTZAKIS, Nikos.

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    Athena: Helen Kazantzakis,

    Octavo, original wrappers. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Signed by Helen Kazantzakis, the widow of the author on the rear endpaper.

    The Fratricides by the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis recounts the tragic violence that swallowed the Greek countryside in the civil war of the late s. Castello, a village in Epirus is not spared all the death and destruction which culminated during the Holy Week. "Stark and ashen, the houses were barren, stone piled on stone, their doors so low one had to stoop to enter &#; and within was darkness. The courtyards smelled of horse manure, goat droppings, and the heavy stench of man. Not a single house had a tree in its courtyard, or a songbird in a cage, or a flowerpot in the window, with perhaps a root of basil or a red carnation; everywhere, only stone upon stone. And the souls who lived within these stones were hard and inhospitable. Mountains, house

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