Kazantzakis has involved approximately opposing reactions, basically due to his accounting and sponsor beliefs and the way these were communicated in his work. As razor-sharp out by Middleton (2002: 300), until his death in 1957 Kazantzakis seemed to seat the customary of an recluse in Greek transfer, the same as his way of behaving did not fall participating in the fashionable categories of theology or literature. As regards Kazantzakis' religiosity, the incentive about it began in 1930 when, at once last the the latest of his "Salvatores Dei. skitiki" (1927) some of his contemporaries accused him of atheism and, as Michael Antonakes gossip in "Christ, Kazantzakis, and Wrestle in Greece" (1990: 25), a trial refer to was set. In a row nevertheless he was never summoned to court, a build-up of the antagonism to Kazantzakis' important and work was reported, as in 1953 various accounting leaders abridged the ring for criminal against the teachings of what's more the Degree and the Catholic Cathedral. Kazantzakis' accounting beliefs are calm designed to be a burning announce in Greece, as is impossible by the give an account "Comparisons: Kazantzakis and Holiness" in the newspaper "To Vima" by Ch. D. Gounelas, and the give an account "Dramatised ducumentaries on his life and struggle with God, Kazantzakis' Passions on suppress", out-of-date October 10, 1997, in the Greek newspaper "Ta Nea", everywhere Pavlos Ayiannides states that: "It seems that Nikos Kazantzakis' model with religion, his famine to deliberation, to prove and find out what Group and God mean, are calm burning issues. Right, an inspector-theologian had requested unhappy a ring-shaped that Kazantzakis' work want not be qualified in schools, on the garden that he was an nonbeliever. Thus, he brought back the announce of his excommunication from the well-founded Cathedral that had risen a few excitement until that time the loud Cretan writer's death".
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Constantinos Tsatsos (1899-1987) argues that, together with the present Greek scholars and poets, Kazantzakis is the utmost accounting one. Worsening being what we nickname a worshipper, he is the purely one who is anxious to find God, at length under attack with the accounting cast doubt on", being Petros Haris (1902-1999) claims that he knows of no other Greek journalist who has perfect such a loud place to God, Christ and the powers of fantasy in his work; "Not even god-fearing Papadiamantis is so repeatedly, so stern to God" (in Panagiotakis" 2001: 274).
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According to Peter Bien (1989), "The Position Fascination" and "Zorba the Greek" are apparently Kazantzakis' utmost fundamental novels. The reception of the pioneer can be cleft participating in two camps: the novel has been what's more condemned and praised, based on accounting soft spot. The criticism originated in the Greek Degree ranking in Athens that wanted to journalists the ring for oath. At the actual time, the Roman Catholic Cathedral positioned the novel on the Record of Ban Books, being Protestant fundamentalists in the Allied States campaigned for the novel to be timid from the populace libraries. In buildup, Martin Scorsese's 1988 video edition of Kazantzakis' novel raised the actual furore as the novel had done (Bien 1989: 66). Then, according to Panagiotakis (2001: 193), even nevertheless "The Position Fascination" is the highest of Kazantzakis' novels, it did not escape angry speech and antagonism, as it was designed to be profane and bold.
In his book "Kazantzakis in the light of dialectic", Michalis Stafylas includes a letter from Iakovos, Built-up of Derkon, to Andreas Galanakis that was published in "Ethnikos Kirix", the close by newspaper of Patras, in which the Built-up states that Nikos Kazantzakis is an reflective with good worth and accounting brightness who, stagnant, had sure accounting suicide in text novels such as "The Position Fascination" (ibid: 82). Stafylas also refers to the tinge of Spiridon, Built-up of Athens, and the Holy Synod's grant to announce a gloomy encyclical, as at once as the novels "Person in charge Michalis" (1953) and "The Position Fascination" were published. The encyclical announced that the Holy Synod of the Greek Degree Cathedral had full of activity the deep income to protect the Degree Christian collect from Kazantzakis' writings, being the Holy Synod had also full of activity the impugn of making the ring apologise for the pleased of his novels (ibid: 83). Stafylas invokes an give an account out-of-date June 3, 1954, in "Zoi", an ecclesiastical newspaper, that was fundamental at that time, everywhere the Holy Synod's wrongdoing on the two novels is supported, by pointing to Kazantzakis' sponsor alliance with Communism and arguing that, perfect the tradition of Communist lie down against Christianity, it was purely to be artless that he want wrongdoing the Christian Degree expectation. As Stafylas gossip, in attendance was a well-orchestrated, slanderous dispute against Kazantzakis, and the Holy Synod would resist gone lengthways with his excommunication from the Degree Cathedral, if Irineos, Built-up of Cassandrias, had not reacted readily. According to Stafylas (ibid: 84), Irineos challenged the Metropolitans who had asked for Kazantzakis' excommunication to notify him if they had actually read the novels in deliberation, purely to find that they had not. In buildup, Mihail, the Greek Degree Archbishop of the Allied States of America, had by all means the Synod to send the shield for Kazantzakis' excommunication to the Patriarchate for ratification. Acknowledgment to the figure of intellectuals and council of the Cretan associates, the Patriarchate did not go unhappy with the ratification and appropriately Kazantzakis was never excommunicated from the Cathedral of Greece (ibid).
As regards the announce of Kazantzakis' excommunication from the Greek Degree Cathedral, Patroclos Stavrou, in the give an account out-of-date April 29, 2000, in the Greek newspaper "To Vima", wrote: "[The Greek Cathedral] started censuring and preparing Kazantzakis' excommunication, a satanic, bogus emulate and at all very may one nickname it. Kazantzakis sent also to them a telegram that he is making an magnetism to the See of God and added: 'You positioned a curse on me, Holy Fathers, and I harvest you my blessing: may your principles be as pleasing as stool pigeon and be as good and moral as I am'. In the end, the Cathedral of Greece did not suppose to go prior with Nikos Kazantzakis' excommunication. The big perception that Kazantzakis was excommunicated is sham".
"For new make a note, read:"
Nikos Kazantzakis: The Rule of an Supposed Excommunication by Anna Oistros
Nikos Kazantzakis: Degree or Heterodox? A Greek Degree Plan by Demetrios J. Constantelos
Ascent: A dossier of Nikos Kazantzakis by Lee Congdon
The Cathedral and Nikos Kazantzakis: The Allegory of His Excommunication and Burial by Built-up Andreas of Alkalochoriou, Kastelliou and Viannou (video category in Greek)