Mistake that Kazantzakis' play "Dawn" has similarities with Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Nikos Kazantzakis had read Spyridon Vassiliadis' play "Galateia" of 1870 and took the theme from there as well as the phrase
For me, one of the Cypriot huts and Galatea is enough.
And Kazantzakis wrote the phrase in a classmate's notebook
"Galatea and a hut".
It is also known that he took the well-known phrase "I fear nothing, I hope nothing, I am a letterer" from the Cypriot poet Dimonaktas
and Kazantzakis himself asked for it to be written on his grave
The following is reported by Lucian in his book "Life of Dimonax" Lucian's Excerpt of what Dimonax said
"When he asks, what is the meaning of bliss for him, only the free man is blessed; but for him, many are free, but I think that he is not hoping for anything; he said, And how, if, this is the power?" e.g for we earn as much as these. And do not understand the things of men, even if they are neither worthy of hope nor fear, ceasing, in any case, of the aniars and the desires." (Lucian, Life of Dimonaktos, paragraphs 19.4-20.7)
(When someone asked him what he thought the definition of happiness was, he replied that only the free person is happy. When the other remarked that there are many free people, he replied: "I consider him to be free, he who hopes for nothing and fears nothing" .And he asked him: "And how can one accomplish this? For we are all for the most part slaves to these two". , since pains and pleasures will definitely end in the end").
Dimonax
Demonax was an ancient Greek Cynic philosopher who was born in Cyprus and flourished in the 2nd century (AD).
Although he belonged to an eminent and wealthy family, he preferred to live as a cynic and ascetic. His teachers were Epictetus, Timocrates, Agathobolus and Demetrius. In his teaching the only goods of life are self-sufficiency, freedom from fear and hope, and peace of mind. He is considered superior to the other Cynic philosophers in terms of his education and training, avoiding those deviant and open-minded actions that generally characterized the Cynics.
Besides Diogenes whom he imitated only in dress and manner of life, Demonax admired Socrates and Aristippus. With his eclecticism he made the Cynics' teaching about life less rough. He lived about 100 years and when he felt very old he died, willfully refusing to take food.
A few words about the drama "Dawn"
"It dawns": Unpublished work by Kazantzakis comes to light
A love drama for the theater, with a story similar to the novel "Anna Karenina" - The edition includes the two surviving manuscripts of the author
"Dawn" was written by Nikos Kazantzakis in 1906 and is "the author's first love drama written for the theater. It was submitted, a year later, in 1907, to the Pantelidio Dramatic Competition of the National University of Athens". His editing was based directly on the manuscript submitted to the competition, which is kept in the National Library of Greece.
The protagonist is Lalo, a captive of her personal lust but also of imposed social propriety. The play accurately describes the moral dilemma and emotional torment of the central heroine. Kazantzakis wrote this text influenced by his time, "while its subject is similar to the plot of the novel Anna Karenina by Tolstoy".
This edition (384 pages) is the first annotated performance of Nikos Kazantzakis' erotic play. The book is released with a scientific introduction by Professor Gerasimos Zoras, while the two extant manuscripts of the drama (the one submitted to the Pantelidio Dramatic Competition and the one kept in the National Library) are listed in the Epimetro of the publication, a short note by the editors Nikos Mathioudakis and Athanasios Karasimos, as well and rich information material
ANNA KARENINA
Case
Anna Karenina (Russian: Анна Каренина), is a novel by Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It was first published in serials in the magazine "Ruskii Vestnik" between 1873 and 1877, and was first published as a book in 1878. Along with "War and Peace" it is considered one of the top works of the author, as well as of world literature. Tolstoy describes how a man's passion can lead him to personal drama and destruction, while psychologically analyzing the human characters.
Case
At the center of the work is the world of aristocrats, among them the heroine of the novel Anna Karenina, a young beautiful woman of high society, who lives in an oppressive family with her husband and young son. Soon the balance of her life is turned upside down when she meets Count Vronsky, who is young, handsome, rich and worldly. Her sense of duty to her husband and love for her child do not seem to be enough to deter her from the love she begins to feel for Vronsky. The latter feels the same feelings for Anna, even though he also flirts with Kitty, a distant relative of Anna's because of anxiety. calmness and composure, but he refuses to give her a divorce, believing that in this way he will manage to keep his wife close and with her his dignity. Anna cannot enjoy her love with Vronsky, because she is tormented by regrets towards her family. Things get more and more difficult when she becomes pregnant and has a baby girl from Vronsky. Her husband agrees to keep the child and give him a place in his family, but Anna can no longer stay with him. She leaves her son with him and leaves with her lover and their newborn daughter for Europe, where they live together for a few days of happiness. Upon their return, however, they again face Karenin's persistent refusal to grant her a divorce. Anna is now unable to enjoy anything. The social outcry and her uncertain position plunge her into a deep melancholy, which is made worse by the suspicion that Vronsky is no longer faithful to her. She temporarily finds refuge and solace in the illusory calm that morphine gives her. , but very soon he discovers that he has found himself in a tragic impasse. There is no other solution for her than death, so Anna Karenina ends her life by falling under the wheels of a train. At the same time, Tolstoy tells the story of Levin, a wealthy landowner and family friend of Anna's brother Stepan Arkadyevich, who initially lives as a bachelor in the village engaged in agricultural work and writing a book on agriculture in Russia. Halfway through the book he marries Kitty, which he wanted from the beginning of the play, but Kitty had refused him, as she was in love with Vronsky. His story, which is not completely separated from Anna's, is written alternately with hers and is almost the same size. In this huge novel, other stories and episodes unfold simultaneously, such as Stepan Arkadyevich's infidelity to his wife, which it is also the beginning of the book.
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