The Greek Passion (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
- First Published: 1953
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Allegory
- Time of Work: c. 1920
- Setting: Lycovrissi, Anatolia
- Principal Characters: Priest Grigoris, Archon Patriarcheas, Old Ladas, Captain Fortounas, Hadji Nikolis, Manolios, Yannakos, Michelis, Mariori, Kostandis, Panayotaros, Katerina, The Agha, Youssoufaki, Lenio, Fotis
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Acting or actors, Villages, 1920’s, Violence, Jesus Christ, Drama or dramatists, Martyrs or martyrdom, Refugees, Greece or Greek people, Turkey or Turkish people, Shepherds, Easter
- Locales: Anatolia
The Story:
On Easter Tuesday of an unspecified year, apparently close to 1920, the Greek elders of Lycovrissi gathered to select the principals of the Passion Play that was given every seven years, at Easter time, under the portico of the church. Lycovrissi was a remote village in the mountains of Anatolia. Its poor, illiterate, superstitious peasants, although they had dim memories of the greatness of their Hellenic past, had lived under harsh Turkish rule for centuries.
Only two men in the town knew anything about the outside world. One was Captain Fortounas, a drunken...
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