![]() ![]() Hence Kazantzakis’s heroes are often dramatizations of existential people trying to face up to the fact that God, as he has traditionally been conceived, does not exist. ![]() The search for God becomes one of the ways in which existential people seek to create meaning for their lives. ![]() For Kazantzakis, God is not dead, as Nietzsche proclaimed rather, God is waiting to be created by people who think they need him. In this short philosophical expostulation, Kazantzakis expresses succinctly his strange mixture of Nietzschean nihilism and Bergsonian optimism. The reader interested in understanding any of the works of Nikos Kazantzakis would do well to begin by reading Salvatores Dei: Asketike (1927 The Saviors of God: Spiritual Exercises, 1960). ![]()
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