Myth and Text: Readings in the Modern Greek Novel

Beaton, Roderick

doi:10.1179/030701384806931458

Byz. mod. Greek stud.

1985

DOI: 10.1179/030701384806931458

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Myth and Text: Readings in the Modern Greek Novel

Roderick Beaton¹

Abstract: '. .. they did not suspect that La Mancha and Montiel and the knight's lean figure would be, for posterity, no less poetic than the episodes of Sinbad. .. For in the beginning of literature is the myth, and in the end as well.' J.L. Borges, 'Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote'

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The Relation of Kazantzakis's Kapetan Michalis to Homer's Iliad and Shakespeare's Othello

Paschalis¹

2010

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The literary sources of Nikos Kazantzakis's novels have attracted little scholarly attention, most probably because there are usually few surface markers to direct the reader to any of the sources. Another is the fact that source-texts do not generally belong to the twentieth century, the period of time on which studies of Kazantzakis have focused, and, in some cases, they may require specialized knowledge of classical Greek literature. A third reason is that the novels have only become the object of purely literary studies in recent years. Most of the scholarship on them is focused on the thoughts of the novelist and not the construction of the novelistic text. This study of Καπετάν Μιχάλης (Kapetan Michalis) complements an earlier one in which I attempted to show the importance of Homer, Plato, Dante, and Shakespeare as literary background to Kazantzakis's first successful novel. Here I argue that Homer's Iliad and Shakespeare's Othello are major source-texts for Kapetan Michalis. To the former it owes its main plot structure and some individual themes and from the latter it derived Michalis's jealousy of Polyxingis and the murder of Emine. The hero's complex inner world originates partly in the fusion of these epic and dramatic features. The fact that in the present study I concentrate on certain aspects of the novel, however, does not mean that I underestimate others.

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From Mythos to Logos : The Poetics of George Seferis

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1987

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Myth and Text: Readings in the Modern Greek Novel

Abstract: '. .. they did not suspect that La Mancha and Montiel and the knight's lean figure would be, for posterity, no less poetic than the episodes of Sinbad. .. For in the beginning of literature is the myth, and in the end as well.' J.L. Borges, 'Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote'

Cited by 2 publications

References 20 publications

The Relation of Kazantzakis's Kapetan Michalis to Homer's Iliad and Shakespeare's Othello

The Relation of Kazantzakis's Kapetan Michalis to Homer's Iliad and Shakespeare's Othello

From Mythos to Logos : The Poetics of George Seferis

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