Odyssey (Kazanzakis)

Japanese: 《オデュッセイア》(カザンザキス) - おでゅっせいあ
Odyssey (Kazanzakis)

…While studying in Paris at a young age, he became fascinated with the philosophy of Bergson, and then he became immersed in Nietzsche, Christianity, Buddhism, and other theories, searching for the meaning of human freedom. The results of his work were expressed in a concentrated form in The Odyssey, completed in 1938. This is a magnificent work of poetry that, as a sequel to Homer's epic poem, chronicles the hero's journey and is three times the length of Homer's work. …

From Greek Literature

… From the stage of oral literature to the completion of the revision of the original text, during the 7th and 8th centuries, Greece witnessed a rapid change in history, including the rise of city-states (polises), several wars with the Persian Empire, struggles for supremacy among Greeks, the rise of the Macedonian Kingdom and the unification of Greece, Alexander the Great's eastern expedition and the emergence of the Hellenistic world. However, throughout that time, early epic literature, especially Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Hesiod's didactic poems, have been considered worthy of the highest esteem. This is because, with their simple language and logical progression, these works have continued to concretely demonstrate and praise through human actions the human values ​​that successive Greeks sought to transcend the vicissitudes of the world. …

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "The Odyssey" (Kazantzakis) is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…若くしてパリに遊学中ベルグソンの哲学に心酔したのをはじめとして,ニーチェからキリスト教,仏教などに次々に没入,人間の自由の意味を追い求めた。その成果は1938年に完成した《オデュッセイア》に集約的に表現された。これはホメロスの叙事詩の後日譚という形で,この英雄の遍歴をホメロスの3倍の分量にわたって書きつづった壮大な詩作品である。…

【ギリシア文学】より

… 口承文芸の段階から〈祖本〉校訂の完了までその間7,8世紀,ギリシアは都市国家(ポリス)群の興隆,ペルシア帝国との幾度かの戦争,ギリシア人同士の覇権争い,マケドニア王国の勃興とギリシア統一,アレクサンドロス大王の東征とヘレニズム世界の出現,という歴史のめまぐるしい推移を閲(けみ)した。しかしその間一貫して初期の叙事詩文芸,とりわけホメロスの《イーリアス》と《オデュッセイア》やヘシオドスの教訓詩が至高の評価に値するものとされてきた。それはこれらの作品が平明な言葉と論理的な筋の運びによって,歴代のギリシア人たちが世情の転変を超えて求めてやまなかった人間的な諸価値を,具体的に人間行為を通じて示し,称揚し続けてきたからにほかならない。…

※「《オデュッセイア》(カザンザキス)」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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