ISBN: 0-88739-072-2
208 pp.
Size: 5 x 7.25
Hardcover
Price: $18.95
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Russia
Nikos Kazantzakis
RUSSIA is a penetrating account of the three long journeys that Kazantzakis made to the Soviet Union between 1925 and 1930. It is a journal that delineates the nature of the greatest upheaval of our time-the Bolshevik Revolution-and its impact on the social and spiritual evolution of mankind. While he paints a fascinating picture of the vast land and its possessed leaders-Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin-Kazantzakis draws unforgettable portraits of Russia's great writers: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Blok and Mayakovsky.
RUSSIA is a vibrant, eyewitness account of the birth of a new world from the womb of Mother Russia-a seething world captured in a unique mold of literature and history, as only a great visionary writer can depict it.
Bio: NIKOS KAZANTAKIS was born in Crete in 1883, studied law at the University of Athens, traveled extensively and was nominated several times for the Novel Prize. He died in Germany in 1957. MICHAEL ANTONAKES is a professor of Comparative Literature at Salem State College (Salem, MA). Two of his plays, He Who Must Die, an adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis' The Greek Passion, and Man of Crete, a collage of scenes from the life, letters and works of Kazantzakis, have been produced in various theaters in the United States. THANASIS MASKALERIS is a poet and translator of modern Greek poetry. He teaches Comparative Literature, Classics and Creative Writing at San Francisco State University where he is also director of the Center for Modern Greek Studies at the Nikos Kazantzakis Chair. His publications include: Poems and Translations and Kostis Palamas: A Critical Study.
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