2023-04-17 17:34:56
For more than 2000 years after, Christ manages to provoke debates, disputes and preoccupy literature in one way or another – and, obviously, not only literature. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Nikos Kazantzakis and much more recently Jose Saramago are just a few of the leading writers who have stood in his works and days. He always found his place in literature. And not only in the works of deeply religious authors, such as for example the well-known Easter short stories of Papadiamantis which always come back in some way these days. It is very interesting how the deep faith that Kazantzakis had in the person of Christ worked and all these conflicts that were created. When “The Last Temptation” was made into a movie, we had terrible reactions from the official church and from para-religious organizations. Kazantzakis simply kept the basic elements of Christian teaching completely intact and gave Christ a more human face. Always thousands of years later, Christ manages to open discussions, even those so important that they escape from literature. After all, “The Last Temptation” was a literary test by Kazantzakis, which was followed by – keeping the analogies and in their own way – other big names who wrote their own perspective on the history of Christ. Robert Gray, Norman Mailer, Saramago, Dostoyevsky. Thousands of years later we have very few short stories, narratives and stories that have as much power as the story of Christ. And it has nothing to do with the metaphysical part, but the rest of the story, it is the story of an unsurpassed man, a person who changed human history, a revolutionary, a prophet who was martyred on the cross, a possibly simple carpenter who decided not to follow the path of his heart but to follow the path of deification.
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