Nikos Kazantzakis: Verachter of bezinger van de vrouw?

Fifty years after his death (1957), the fame of Nikos Kazantzakis continues to overshadow the rest of the Greek writers and poets, especially abroad. In all of Kazantzakisʼ work, one can sense a double personality, a double conscience, a two-faced self. The same can be seen in his approach to the woman, a fact that caused one scholar to characterize him as sexist and another as worshiper of the female sex. In this article I will attempt, through the life and the most important works of the writer, to describe and analyze his contradictions around the subject “woman”.