Title: Ho kapetan Michalēs
First published: 1965
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.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Modern Greek literature, Fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, general, Greece, fiction, Historical fiction
Places: Crete (Greece)