Cover image for Hold Fast the Mountain Pass : A Work of Historical Fiction about the Life and World of Nikos Kazantzakis.
Hold Fast the Mountain Pass : A Work of Historical Fiction about the Life and World of Nikos Kazantzakis.
Title:
Hold Fast the Mountain Pass : A Work of Historical Fiction about the Life and World of Nikos Kazantzakis.
Author:
Vasils, Theodora.
ISBN:
9780761852537
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (245 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Chapter One. 1886 -- Chapter Two. Nikos -- Chapter Three. Mihalis -- Chapter Four. Educating Nikos -- Chapter Five. 1889-Flight -- Chapter Six. Massacre -- Chapter Seven. A Time of Respite -- Chapter Eight. Liberty! -- Chapter Nine. The Idle Days of Summer -- Chapter Ten. Melancholy Brooding -- Chapter Eleven. Galatea and a Hut by the Sea -- Chapter Twelve. The Crossing -- Chapter Thirteen. The Three Arcades -- Chapter Fourteen. Above the Stagnant Waters of Convention -- Chapter Fifteen. "A Compelling New Voice" -- Chapter Sixteen. Ridi Pagliaccio -- Chapter Seventeen. Four Sparsely Furnished Rooms -- Chapter Eighteen. Krasi -- Chapter Nineteen. Marcos Avyeris -- Chapter Twenty. How Hidden Nuances Can Trip Us Up -- Chapter Twenty-One. Angelos . . . God . . . and the Holy Mountain -- Chapter Twenty-Two. Angelos and Eva -- Chapter Twenty-Three. A Man Named Zorba -- Chapter Twenty-Four. 1917 -- Chapter Twenty-Five. Respite at the Maternal Hearth -- Chapter Twenty-Six. Mustapha Kemal and the Young Turks -- Chapter Twenty-Seven. The Greek Race -- Chapter Twenty-Eight. The Expatriate Life -- Chapter Twenty-Nine. A Quiet Young Woman -- Chapter Thirty. Tryst in Lenda -- Chapter Thirty-One. Moscow Utters a Cry -- Chapter Thirty-Two. The Rupture of Two Lives -- Chapter Thirty-Three. The Travel Journals -- Chapter Thirty-Four. Sinai -- Chapter Thirty-Five. Panait Istrati -- Chapter Thirty-Six. "Following the Red Star"-Part II -- Chapter Thirty-Seven. The Saviors of God -- Chapter Thirty-Eight. The Iron Angels of the Apocalypse Begin Their Work -- Chapter Thirty-Nine. Aegina -- Chapter Forty. Reunion in Athens -- Chapter Forty-One. The Gorilla Has Discovered Fire -- Chapter Forty-Two. Casting About for Some Life Line -- Chapter Forty-Three. UNESCO -- Chapter Forty-Four. Antibes -- Chapter Forty-Five. And From One Small Spark.

Chapter Forty-Six. So Little Time -- Chapter Forty-Seven. El Greco's Toledo -- Chapter Forty-Eight. The Last Temptation -- Chapter Forty-Nine. Angelos Revisited -- Chapter Fifty. A Lone Man Ascending . . . Ascending -- Chapter Fifty-One. Blessed Is He Who Can Raise a Voice -- Chapter Fifty-Two. Solitude . . . The Climate of Creation -- Chapter Fifty-Three. Brother Francis -- Chapter Fifty-Four. Brother Prevelakis -- Chapter Fifty-Five. They Called It Their Little Koukouli -- Chapter Fifty-Six. Men and Supermen -- Chapter Fifty-Seven. China -- Chapter Fifty-Eight. "We owe a cock to Asclepius" -- Chapter Fifty-Nine. Death, Oh Faithful Hound -- Chapter Sixty. Epilogue -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Nikos Kazantzakis Selected Bibliography of Works Available in English Translation.
Abstract:
Hailed as 'my spiritual brother' by Albert Schweitzer, and oft-compared to fellow giants Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Nikos Kazantzakis occupies a unique place among the literary notables of our time.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Electronic Access:
Click to View
Holds: Copies: