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Subtilitatea formelor discursive în eseul Grădina de piatră de Nikos Kazantzakis
The Subtlety of Discursive Forms in Nikos Kazantzakis

Author(s): Amalia Drăgulănescu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Aesthetics, Greek Literature
Published by: Editura Universității Aurel Vlaicu
Keywords: voyage accounting; the category of sublime; Oriental mystique; spiritual pilgrimage; ultimate reality;

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the proteicity of some forms of discourse which combines aesthetics and representations, referring to mentalities and even ideology, in a genuine kind of metatext. Being a pretext for his atipic literature with philosophical insertions, Nikos Kazantzakis’ voyages in China and Japan create the appropriate atmosphere for a temperate fiction and a hyperbolic reality. From this perspective a realistic allegory about the eternal China and the fragile Japan, two sources of chaos and wisdom in the same time, arises. Prefiguring some patterns of a sui generis postmodernism, this writing includes several topical ideas like the universality of a unique religion, the intercultural changes and even the idea of a mankind which recovers the signs of the humanity.

  • Issue Year: 12/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 49-56
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian