Preposterous Writing: On the Spatio-Temporal Dislocation of Kazantzakis's 'Askitikí' in 'O Aníforos'
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Bart Soethaert – 2025
In Nikos Kazantzakis's recently published novel O Aníforos (Ο Ανήφορος, [1946] 2022), Cosmas' journey from Crete to England in the aftermath of the Second World War ends up in the solitary writing of Askitikí to give expression to his "vision of liberation". By focusing on how this autofictional novel multiplies the spatio-temporal signification of Askitikí, thereby exploring the capability of Kazantzakis's worldview to address a critical situation in a new context, the nuclear age, this article reveals Askitikí as the main vector along which the heterogeneous textual materials of O Aníforos's literary assemblage were projected.
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Title
Preposterous Writing: On the Spatio-Temporal Dislocation of Kazantzakis's 'Askitikí' in 'O Aníforos'
Author
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Location
Newcastle upon Tyne
Keywords
Book Chapter; RA 4: Literary Currencies and RA 5: Building Digital Communities
Date
2025-11-14
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Relation
Appeared in
Lewis Owens, Nikos Mathioudakis (Eds.). Re-Reading Kazantzakis's 'Askitiki'. Centenary Reflections
Type
Text
Size or Duration
118–132
Coverage
This publication is the result of work carried out in Research Area 4: Literary Currencies and Reasearch Area 5: Building Digital Communities.
How to cite:
Bart Soethaert. "Preposterous Writing: On the Spatio-Temporal Dislocation of Kazantzakis's Askitikí in O Aníforos." In Re-Reading Kazantzakis's Askitiki. Centenary Reflections, edited by Lewis Owens and Nikos Mathioudakis, 118–32. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2025.
Bart Soethaert. "Preposterous Writing: On the Spatio-Temporal Dislocation of Kazantzakis's Askitikí in O Aníforos." In Re-Reading Kazantzakis's Askitiki. Centenary Reflections, edited by Lewis Owens and Nikos Mathioudakis, 118–32. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2025.