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An incurable mute sorrow: image of Penelope in Kazantzakis’ Odyssey

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No. 40 (2021)

Abstract

This article explores the image of Penelope in Nikos Kazantzakis’ Odyssey, paying special attention to the way her figure contrasts with Odysseus, as can be seen in the first two rhapsodies of the work. Bearing in mind the radical game of identity and difference that the Cretan writer has made on the legacy of Homer, we will finally observe how in this fragile, blurred and even ruined Penelope it hides, despite everything, a key question of the Kazantzakian text, namely: the strangeness, place of disagreement that moves the modern hero to throw himself on the journey again, this time without return.

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Odyssey, Penelope, muteness, Kazantzakis, Homer

Author Biography

Flavio Dalmazzo, Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez

Correspondencia: Flavio Dalmazzo
Email: fdalmazzo@ucsh.cl
Profesor adjunto, Instituto de Filosofía P. Juvenal Dho, Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, Chile.
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4762-8084

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Dalmazzo, F. (2021). An incurable mute sorrow: image of Penelope in Kazantzakis’ Odyssey. Byzantion Nea Hellás, (40), pp. 195–206. Retrieved from https://byzantion.uchile.cl/index.php/RBNH/article/view/65288
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