Christ Recrucified
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Acceptable
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: FEP missing
Markings: No markings
A masterwork of twentieth-century Greek literature, Christ Recrucified is a richly allegorical novel set in a small Greek village under Ottoman rule, where a group of peasants chosen to reenact the Passion Play gradually begin to embody the very roles they have been assigned. Kazantzakis chronicles the tragic collision between spiritual idealism and human corruption as the villagers who portray Christ and his apostles are transformed by their sacred parts, ultimately forced to confront the same forces of greed, fear, and institutional cruelty that condemned the original Christ. The novel's tone is at once deeply compassionate and searingly indignant, presenting the suffering of a band of Greek refugees as a mirror of timeless persecution and the eternal struggle between the oppressed and the powerful. With the moral weight of a parable and the vivid intensity of an epic, Kazantzakis argues that true Christian virtue is not found in the church or its authorities, but in the radical, self-sacrificing love of the marginalized. Christ Recrucified stands as one of the most profound meditations on faith, justice, and human dignity in modern world literature.
Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Acceptable
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: FEP missing
Markings: No markings
A masterwork of twentieth-century Greek literature, Christ Recrucified is a richly allegorical novel set in a small Greek village under Ottoman rule, where a group of peasants chosen to reenact the Passion Play gradually begin to embody the very roles they have been assigned. Kazantzakis chronicles the tragic collision between spiritual idealism and human corruption as the villagers who portray Christ and his apostles are transformed by their sacred parts, ultimately forced to confront the same forces of greed, fear, and institutional cruelty that condemned the original Christ. The novel's tone is at once deeply compassionate and searingly indignant, presenting the suffering of a band of Greek refugees as a mirror of timeless persecution and the eternal struggle between the oppressed and the powerful. With the moral weight of a parable and the vivid intensity of an epic, Kazantzakis argues that true Christian virtue is not found in the church or its authorities, but in the radical, self-sacrificing love of the marginalized. Christ Recrucified stands as one of the most profound meditations on faith, justice, and human dignity in modern world literature.