Can I read Scandalizing Jesus? : Kazantzakis's "The last temptation of Christ" fifty years on on EtoBox?

Scandalizing Jesus? : Kazantzakis's "The last temptation of Christ" fifty years on by Darren J. N Middleton; Martin Scorsese; Peter Bien is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Scandalizing Jesus? : Kazantzakis's "The last temptation of Christ" fifty years on about?

2005 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Nikos Kazantzakis' The Last Temptation of Christ. Since Kazantzakis ranks as one of the twentieth century's most important European writers, and given that this particular work of his has garnered so much publicity, this collection of essays re-assesses the novel, though not forgetting the movie, in light of one half century's worth of criticism and reception history.Clergy and laity alike have denounced this novel. When it first appeared, the Greek Orthodox Church condemned it, the Vatican placed it on its Index of Forbidden Texts, and conservative-evangelicals around the world protested its allegedly blasphemous portrayal of a human, struggling Messiah who \"succumbs\" to the devil's final snare while on the Cross: the temptation to happiness. Assuredly, the sentiments surrounding this novel, at least in the first thirty years or so, were very strong.When Martin Scorcese decided in the early 1980s to adapt the novel for the silver screen, even stronger feelings were expressed. Even today his works are seldom studied in Greece, largely because the Greek government is unable or unwilling to anthologize his material for the national curriculum.

Author

Darren J. N Middleton; Martin Scorsese; Peter Bien

Publisher

The Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826416063

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Religion