Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis (грч. Νίκος Καζαντζάκης, 18. februar 1883 — 26. oktobar 1957) bio je grčki pisac. Široko smatran velikanom moderne grčke književnosti, on je bio nominovan tokom devet godina za Nobelovu nagradu za književnost.

Nikos Kazantzakis
Datum rođenja	18 februar 1883(1883-02-18)
Mesto rođenja	Iraklion, otomanski Krit  Otomansko carstvo (sad Iraklion, Grčka)
Datum smrti	26. oktobar 1957.(1957-10-26) (74 god.)
Mesto smrti	Frajburg  Zapadna Nemačka (sad Nemačka)
Prebivalište	Grčka
Državljanstvo	grčko
Univerzitet	Univerzitet u Atini (1902–1906; LL.D., 1906) Univerzitet u Parizu (1907–1909; Dr, 1909)
Zanimanje	Pesnik, romanopisac, esejista, putopisac, filozof, dramatičar, novinar, prevodilac
Potpis

Kazantzakisovi romani obuhvataju: Grk Zorba (objavljen 1946. kao Život i vremena Aleksisa Zorbasa), Ponovo razapeti Hrist (1948), Kapetan Mihalis (1950, u prevodu Sloboda ili smrt) i Poslednje Hristovo iskušenje (1955). On je pisao i drame, putopise, memoare i filozofske eseje poput Spasitelj Boga: Duhovne vežbe. Njegova slava proširila se u engleskom govornom području zbog filmskih adaptacija Grka Zorbe (1964) i Poslednjeg Hristovog iskušenja (1988).

On je preveo niz zapaženih dela na moderni grčki jezik, poput Božanstvene komedije, Tako je govorio Zaratustra i Ilijade.

Bibliografija

Plaketa za Kazantzakisa, 13 rue Du Sommerard, Pariz

Bista u Iraklionu

Razglednica od Nikosa Kazantzakisa svom lekaru Maks-Hermanu Herderu, 13. septembra 1957, Čungking

Odiseja: Moderni nastavak

• The Odyssey [Selekcija iz], delimičnog prevoda u prozi Kimona Frajara, Bdenje 12 (1953), pp. 58–65.
• The Odyssey, izvod iz prevoda Kimona Frajar, Čikaški pregled 8, No. 2 (proleće/leto 1954), pp. 12–18.
• „The Return of Odysseus”, delimični prevod Kimona Frajara, Atlantik mesečno 195, Br. 6 (jun 1955), pp. 110–112.
• The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, potpun prevod stihova Kimona Frajar, Njujork: Sajmon & Šuster, 1958; London: Seker i Vorberg, 1958.
• „Death, the Ant”, iz The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, Book XV, 829–63, prevod Kimona Frajar, The Charioteer, No. 1 (Summer 1960), p. 39.

Putopisi

• Spain, prevod Ejmi Mims, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963.
• Japan, China, prevod Džordža K. Papageotesa, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963; objavljeno u Ujedinjenom Kraljevstvu kao Travels in China & Japan, Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1964; London: Faber and Faber, 1964.
• England, prevod Ejmi Mims, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965; Oxford, Bruno Cassirer, 1965.
• Journey to Morea, prevod F. A. Rid, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965; objavljeno u Ujedinjenom Kraljevstvu kao Travels in Greece, Journey to Morea, Oxford, Bruno Cassirer, 1966.
• Journeying: Travels in Italy, Egypt, Sinai, Jerusalem and Cyprus, prevod Timija Vasils i Teodore Vasils, Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1975; San Francisco: Creative Arts Books Co., 1984.
• Russia, prevod A. Maskalerisa i M. Antonakis, Creative Arts Books Co, 1989.

Novele

• Zorba the Greek, Prevod Karla Vildmana, London, John Lehmann, 1952; New York, Simon & Schuster, 1953; Oxford, Bruno Cassirer, 1959; London & Boston: Faber and Faber, 1961 and New York: Ballantine Books, 1964.
• The Greek Passion, prevod Džonatana Grifina, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1954; New York, Ballantine Books, 1965; published in the United Kingdom as Christ Recrucified, Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1954; London: Faber and Faber, 1954.
• Freedom or Death, prevod Džonatana Grifina, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1954; New York: Ballantine, 1965; published in the United Kingdom as Freedom or Death, Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1956; London: Faber and Faber, 1956.
• The Last Temptation, prevod Pitera A. Bina, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1960; New York, Bantam Books, 1961; Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1961; London: Faber and Faber, 1975.
• Saint Francis, prevod Pitera A. Bina, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962; published in the United Kingdom as God's Pauper: Saint Francis of Assisi, Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1962, 1975; London: Faber and Faber, 1975.
• The Rock Garden, prevod sa francuskog (u kome je napisan original) Ričard Houarda, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963.
• The Fratricides, prevod Atine Gianakas Dalas, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1964; Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1964.
• Toda Raba, prevod sa francuskog (u kome je originalno napisan) Ejmi Mims, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1964.
• Report to Greco — pogledajte pod 'Memoirs, essays and letters'
• Alexander the Great. A Novel [za decu], prevod Teodore Vasils, Athens (Ohio): Ohio University Press, 1982.
• At the Palaces of Knossos. A Novel [za decu], prevod Timi i Teodora Vasilis, urednik Teodora Vasilis, London: Oven, 1988. Adaptirano iz originalnog manuskripta napisanog pisaćom mašinom.
• Father Yanaros [iz novele The Fratricides], prevod Teodor Sampson, u Modern Greek Short Stories, Vol. 1, edited by Kyr. Delopoulos, Athens: Kathimerini Publications, 1980.
• Serpent and Lily, prevod Teodore Vasils, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.

Drame

• Julian the Apostate: Prvo postavljeno u Parizu, 1948.
• Three Plays: Melissa, Kouros, Christopher Columbus, prevod Atine Gianakas-Dalas, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969.
• Christopher Columbus, prevod Atine Gianakas-Dalas, Kentfield (CA): Allen Press, 1972. Izdanje ograničeno na 140 kopija.
• From Odysseus, A Drama, delimični prevod M. Bajrona Rajizisa, "The Literary Review" 16, No. 3 (Spring 1973), p. 352.
• Comedy: A Tragedy in One Act, prevod Kimona Frajara, "The Literary Review" 18, No. 4 (Summer 1975), pp. 417–454 {61}.
• Sodom and Gomorrah, A Play, prevod Kimona Frajara, "The Literary Review" 19, No. 2 (Winter 1976), pp. 122–256 (62).
• Two plays: Sodom and Gomorrah and Comedy: A Tragedy in One Act, prevod Kimona Frajara, Minneapolis: North Central Publishing Co., 1982.
• Buddha, prevod Kimona Frajara i Atine Dalas-Damis, San Diego (CA): Avant Books, 1983.

Memoari, eseji i korespondencija

• The Saviors of God: Spiritual Exercises, prevod Kimona Frajara, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960.
• Report to Greco, prevod Pitera A. Bina, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965; Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1965; London: Faber and Faber, 1965; New York: Bantan Books, 1971.
• Symposium, prevod Teodora Vasilsa, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1974; New York: Minerva Press, 1974.
• Friedrich Nietzsche on the Philosophy of Right and the State, prevod O. Makridisa, New York: State University of NY Press, 2007.
• From The Saviors of God: Spiritual Exercises, prevod Kimona Frajara, "The Charioteer", No. 1 (Summer 1960), pp. 40–51; reprinted in "The Charioteer" 22 and 23 (1980/1981), pp. 116–129 {57}.
• The Suffering God: Selected Letters to Galatea and to Papastephanou, prevod Filipa Rampa i Katerine Angelaki-Ruk, New Rochelle (NY): Caratzas Brothers, 1979.
• The Angels of Cyprus, prevod Ejmi Mims, u Cyprus '74: Aphrodite's Other Face, edited by Emmanuel C. Casdaglis, Athens: National Bank of Greece, 1976.
• Burn Me to Ashes: An Excerpt, prevod Kimona Frajara, "Greek Heritage" 1, No. 2 (Spring 1964), pp. 61–64.
• Christ (poezija), prevod Kimona Frajar, "Journal of Hellenic Diaspora" (JHD) 10, No. 4 (Winter 1983), pp. 47–51 (60).
• Drama and Contemporary Man, An Essay, prevod Pitera Bina, "The Literary Review" 19, No. 2 (Winter 1976), pp. 15–121 {62}.
• „He Wants to Be Free – Kill Him!” A Story, prevod Atine G. Dalas, "Greek Heritage" 1, No. 1 (Winter 1963), pp. 78–82.
• The Homeric G.B.S., "The Shaw Review" 18, No. 3 (Sept. 1975), pp. 91–92. Grčki original napisan za radio emisiju BBC inostranog servisa na grčkom jeziku iz 1946. godine, povodom devedesetog rođendana Džordža Bernarda Šoa.
• Hymn (Allegorical), prevod M. Byron Raizis, "Spirit" 37, No. 3 (Fall 1970), pp. 16–17.
• Two Dreams, prevod Pitera Mekridža, "Omphalos" 1, No. 2 (Summer 1972), p. 3.
• Nikos Kazantzakis Pages at the Historical Museum of Crete
• Peter Bien (ed. and tr.), The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis (Princeton, PUP, 2011) (Princeton Modern Greek Studies).

Antologije

• A Tiny Anthology of Kazantzakis. Remarks on the Drama, 1910–1957, kompilacija Pitera Bina, "The Literary Review" 18, No. 4 (Summer 1975), pp. 455–459 {61}.

Literatura

• Pandelis Prevelakis, Nikos Kazantzakis and His Odyssey. A Study of the Poet and the Poem, translated from the Greek by Philip Sherrard, with a prefaction by Kimon Friar, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961.
• Peter Bien, Nikos Kazantzakis, 1962; New York: Columbia University Press, 1972.
• Peter Bien, Nikos Kazantzakis and the Linguistic Revolution in Greek Literature, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1972.
• Peter Bien, Tempted by happiness. Kazantzakis' post-Christian Christ Wallingford, Pa.: Pendle Hill Publications, 1984.
• Peter Bien, Kazantzakis. Politics of the Spirit, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989.
• Darren J. N. Middleton and Peter Bien, ed., God's struggler. Religion in the Writings of Nikos Kazantzakis, Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1996
• Darren J. N. Middleton, Novel Theology: Nikos Kazantzakis' Encounter with Whiteheadian Process Theism, Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2000.
• Darren J. N. Middleton, Scandalizing Jesus?: Kazantzakis' 'Last Temptation of Christ' Fifty Years On, New York: Continuum, 2005.
• Darren J. N. Middleton, Broken Hallelujah: Nikos Kazantzakis and Christian Theology, Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.
• Helen Kazantzakis, Nikos Kazantzakis. A biography based on his letters, translated by Amy Mims, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968; Bruno Cassirer, Oxford, 1968; Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Co. for Donald S. Ellis, 1983.
• John (Giannes) Anapliotes, The real Zorbas and Nikos Kazantzakis, translated by Lewis A. Richards, Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1978.
• James F. Lea, Kazantzakis: The Politics of Salvation, foreword by Helen Kazantzakis, The University of Alabama Press, 1979.
• Kimon Friar, The spiritual odyssey of Nikos Kazantzakis. A talk, edited and with an introduction by Theofanis G. Stavrou, St. Paul, Minn.: North Central Pub. Co., 1979.
• Morton P. Levitt, The Cretan Glance, The World and Art of Nikos Kazantzakis, Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1980.
• Daniel A. Dombrowski, Kazantzakis and God, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.
• Colin Wilson and Howard F. Dossor, Nikos Kazantzakis, Nottingham: Paupers, 1999.
• Dossor, Howard F The Existential Theology of Nikos Kazantzakis Wallingford Pa (Pendle Hill Pamphlets No 359), 2002
• Lewis Owen, Creative Destruction: Nikos Kazantzakis and the Literature of Responsibility, Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2003.
• Ioannis G. Zaglaris, "Nikos Kazantzakis and thought leadership", 2013.
• Ioannis G. Zaglaris, "Nikos Kazantzakis - end of time due to copyright", GISAP: Educational Sciences, 4, pp. 53-54, 2014
• Ioannis G. Zaglaris, "Challenge in Writing", 2015

Spoljašnje veze

• The Nikos Kazantzakis Museum, Crete
• The Nikos Kazantzakis Pages at the Historical Museum of Crete
• Iran to pay homage to Greek author Kazantzakis – Tehran Times, 10 April 2008
• Society of Nikos Kazantzakis friends
• Kazantzakis Publications (Patroclos Stavrou) Архивирано на сајту Wayback Machine (29. август 2011)
• Nikos Kazantzakis на сајту LCCN, са 128 каталошких евиденција