*Owens, Lewis and Nikos Mathioudakis (eds.). Re-reading Kazantzakis’s Askitiki: Centenary Reflections. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2025. xxi, 244 p.

ISBN 9781036457976, 1036457974 (hbk); 9781036457983, 1036457982 (e-book)

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Contents:

David Holton, Foreword (pp. ix-x). Lewis Owens, Introduction (pp. xi-xxi).

Ch. 1: Peter Bien, “Why Kazantzakis’s Ασκητική Is Not Nihilistic” (pp. 1-7); Ch. 2: Nikos Mathioudakis, “Textual Criticism on Kazantzakis’s Askitiki: From the Unique Extant Manuscript to the Edition” (pp. 8-29); Ch. 3: John Sakkas and Dora Simintzi, “Askitiki: Its Historical and Intellectual Context” (pp. 30-45); Ch. 4: Ewa Róża Janion, “Itka Horowitz in the Writings of Nikos Kazantzakis and in Family Memoirs” (pp. 46-65); Ch. 5: Afroditi Athanasopoulou and George Vlachos, “The Image of the Ancestor in Askitiki” (pp. 65-81); Ch. 6: George Dritsas, “From the “Dead” to the “Struggling” God: The Philosophical Loans of Nietzsche to Kazantzakis” (pp. 82-87); Ch. 7: Thomas Karagkiozopoulos, “Aspects of Opposing Pairs in Nikos Kazantzakis’s Askitiki” (pp. 88-101); Ch. 8: Dionysious Psilopoulos, “Coincidentia Oppositorum and the New Divinity in Kazantzakis’s Askitiki” (pp. 102-117); Ch. 9: Bart Soethaert, “Preposterous Writing: On the Spatio-Temporal Dislocation  of Kazantzakis’s Askitikí in O Aníforos” (pp. 118-132); Ch. 10: Mara Psalti, “’Optimism’ by Kostas Karyotakis: A Pocket-Sized Counter-Askitiki” (pp. 133-152); Ch. 11: Basilius J. Bert Groen, “Christian Footprints of Askitiki” (pp. 153-169); Ch. 12: Paola Pruett-Vergara, “Death as an Ascetic Ideal in John Climacus’s The Ladder of Divine Ascent and Nikos Kazantzakis’s Askitiki” (pp. 170-178); Ch. 13: Svitlana Pereplotchykova, “Kazantzakis in Ukrainian: The March from Christ Recrucified to Askitiki” (pp. 179-203); Ch. 14: Irena Gavranović Lukšić, “Translator’s Notes on Translation(s)” (pp. 204-207); Ch. 15: Afroditi S. Tseremi, “From Darkness to Fire: A Soul’s Journey” (pp. 208-213).

Contributors (pp. 213-219); Index (pp. 220-244).

Book dedicated to Peter Bien.