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Nomadic and correspondent discourses: the voyage to Orient in Nikos Kazantzakisās travel letters and literary work
Karpozou, Peggy |
Date Issued | Issue | Start Page | End Page |
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2015 | 7 | 69 | 84 |
This article examines the relation of an authorās travel letters with his literary work. Travel letters are proposed as a prioritized example for the study of the formation of an āopen circuitā with an authorās other oeuvres, beyond the traditional ālaboratoryā approach of his correspondence, according to which letters come before or after the literary work. The research is focused on Nikos Kazantzakisās travel letters from China and Japan, written during his travel experience as a press correspondent (1935). These letters addressed to his wife have also fuelled his travel articles for the daily press Acropolis and afterwards his travelogue entitled Japan - China. A Journal of Two Voyages to the Far East and his novel entitled Rock Garden. To this corpus we could also add works in which the travel experience is treated in a rather philosophical manner, such as his piece The Saviors of God: Spiritual exercises and his epic poem The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel. In the first part through the exploitation of concepts deriving from Jacques Derrida (1987) and Gilles Deleuze (1972, 1980), the nomadism of the travel letter is examined. In this manner, a study of Kazantzakisās travel letters and of all these textsāeither originating or influenced by his travels to Asia and his interest in the Orient, is advanced as an āopen circuit,ā beyond any temporal and generic restrictions. In the second part, the various literary and cultural intertextual relations in his work are examined as organizing his encounters with Japanese and Chinese women in his specifically Asiatic travel experience through the archetypical āwoman as Temptressā example (J. Campbell, 1949). It has been proven that a ānomadic thoughtā not enclosed in genres is circulated through all forms of his auctorial activity and the various correspondent forms can alternatively function as rather dynamic assemblages of his oriental travel experience.
Straipsnis tiria ryÅ”ÄÆ tarp raÅ”ytojo kelionÄs laiÅ”kų ir jo grožinių kÅ«rinių. Kelionių laiÅ”kams Äia teikiama pirmenybÄ, ÄÆ juos žvelgiant kaip ÄÆ āatviro ratoā, apjungianÄio kitus raÅ”ytojo kÅ«rybinius darbus, sudÄtinÄ dalÄÆ ir taip iÅ”einant už tradicinio požiÅ«rio ÄÆ korespondencijÄ , pasak kurio, laiÅ”kai eina arba prieÅ”, arba po grožinio kÅ«rinio. Straipsnyje analizuojami Nikoso Kazantzakio kelionių laiÅ”kai iÅ” Indijos ir Japonijos, paraÅ”yti jam dirbant korespondentu 1935 metais. LaiÅ”kai, skirti jo žmonai, taip pat paskatino jÄÆ paraÅ”yti kelionių straipsnius dienraÅ”tyje Acropolis ir vÄliau ā kelionių knygÄ , pavadintÄ Japonija-Kinija. Dviejų kelionių ÄÆ Tolimuosius rytus žurnalas, bei romanÄ Sodas tarp uolų. Prie Å”ios grupÄs dar galima pridÄti kÅ«rinius, kuriuose raÅ”ytojas kelionÄs patirtÄÆ traktuoja iÅ” filosofinÄs pusÄs, kaip antai, Dievo iÅ”gelbÄtojai: dvasinÄs patirtys ir jo epinÄ poemÄ OdisÄja: Modernus tÄsinys.