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Kazantzakis's Zorba the Greek: East Asian Influences from Zen Buddhism to Daoism

Author(s)
Kim, Wook-Dong
Issued Date
2018-10
DOI
10.1353/mgs.2018.0023
URI
https://scholarworks.unist.ac.kr/handle/201301/24126
Fulltext
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/704794
Citation
JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES, v.36, no.2, pp.243 - 266
Abstract
Broadly transcultural as well as intertextual in approach, this article explores the extent to which Zorba the Greek (1946) is shaped by the idea, philosophy, and religion of East Asian countries, such as China and Japan. The significant engagements discussed in this article include: (1) the Japanese concept of fudoshin, mainly used in Japanese Zen buddhism (zazen_ and Japanese material arts (budo); (2) the Lunyu (Analects) by Kongzi (Confucius); (3) the Mengzi by Mengzi (Mencius); and (4) the Zhuangzi by Zhuang Zhou (Chuang0tzu). Kazantzakis's untill now largely undiscerned dialogue with these East Asian Thinkers turned out to be vital to his worldview and literary universe, particularly in Zorbe the Greek, which can be read as the narrator's progression from Zen Buddhism toward the Dao.
Publisher
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS
ISSN
0738-1727

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