The second volume of the series "Studies on Kazantzakis" is structured around the main thesis of Roderick Beaton that Kazantzakis, as a prose writer, applies modernist and postmodernist writing practices.

The British critic connects Kazantzakis's texts to those of Eliot (mythical period), Pound, Márquez (magical realism), and Borges, offering a new perspective on the prose work of the Cretan writer with this critical proposal.

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