TY - JOUR AU - Μητροφάνης, Γιάννης PY - 2020/04/22 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - At the Palaces of Knossos: the disguise of an ambivalence of Nikos Kazantzakis JF - Ariadne JA - Ariadne VL - 0 IS - 23-24 SE - Articles DO - 10.26248/ariadne.v0i23-24.798 UR - https://ejournals.lib.uoc.gr/Ariadne/article/view/798 SP - 175-197 AB - <p>DURING the years of German occupation of Greece, Nikos Kazantzakis&nbsp;had his most creative writing career. Among other texts&nbsp;that the author worked during that period, Kazantzakis completed the&nbsp;last (?) writing of his novel for children <em>At the Palaces of Knossos</em>, a text&nbsp;which is a cross-section. With this mythological novel, Kazantzakis&nbsp;redefines his relationship with Hellenism and its history. The Minoan&nbsp;Crete is a “mirror image” of British Empire of his time, whereby the&nbsp;narrator exploits the multiperspectivity of the ancient myth and makes&nbsp;a dialogue with travelogues, <em>Odyssey</em>, but mainly with colonial reception&nbsp;of the Minoan archaeology. The comparative approach of the subject, in&nbsp;conjunction with the study of the manuscript <em>At the Palaces of Knossos</em> demonstrates that this text is the prelude of the author’s reconciliation&nbsp;with Hellenism which was validated by his last work <em>Report to Greco</em>&nbsp;(<em>Anafora ston Greco</em>).</p> ER -