Freedom or death
Subtitle: a novel.
By: Translated by Jonathan Griffin. Pref. by A. Den Doolaard.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1956
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; gre
Number of pages: 433
Subjects: Crete (Greece) -- History -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Freedom and Death is Kazantzakis's modern Iliad. The context is Crete in the late nineteenth century, the epic struggle between Greeks and Turks, between Chrisianity and Islam. A new uprising takes place to rival those of 1854, 1866 and 1878, and the island is thrown into confusion yet again. In the village of Megalokastro a Cretan resistance fighter, Captain Michales, is matched by the Turkish bey, his blood-brother. The life of the local community continues shakily, but is disrupted by explosions of violence.
Notes: Translation of Ho Kapetan Michalēs.