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LA CIUDAD IDEAL EN LA ODISEA DE NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS

2013; University of Chile; Issue: 32 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4067/s0718-84712013000100013

0718-8471

Helena González Vaquerizo,

Spanish Philosophy and Literature

this paper approaches the construction of an ideal city in Nikos Kazantzakis' Odyssey, a 20 th century epic poem which rewrites and continues that of Homer.In doing so it focuses on utopian literature patterns.In the XV book of this Odyssey and after a long way through the desert, the hero is about to build an ideal city, more righteous, more equal, where the crowd of people following him can reach and overpass its human destiny.On its very opening date, the great work will be destroyed by an earthquake and the hero will have to start his way on his own again.In the configuration of the failed utopian society which Kazantzakis' proposes the models taken from the ideal cities of Plato and Thomas More, as well as the nietzscheanian thinking, the sociocultural context and the historic circumstances of the 20 th century play a determinant role.