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Article: Crete in history and myth.(travel)(Critical essay)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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CRETE, proud and hospitable, proclaims its cultural heritage from the moment the traveler lands at Heraklion's Kazantzakis Airport. Nikos Kazantzakis, whose study is replicated in the Historical Museum at Heraklion, was an ardent advocate for his beloved homeland: two of his powerful novels focus on Crete's people (Zorba the Greek, 1952) and its history of struggle against the Turks (Freedom or Death, 1956); and his autobiography, Report to Greco (1965), is addressed to his countryman Domenicos Theotokopoulos, who later moved to western Europe and became known as El Greco.
While Crete s literary history extends down to its major twentieth-century writers--notably ...
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