Nikos Kazantzakis and Chaucer

Author / Editor
Raizis, M. Byron.

Title
Nikos Kazantzakis and Chaucer

Published
Comparative Literature Studies 6 (1969): 141-47.

Description
Establishes Nikos Kazantzakis's familiarity with Chaucer, evident in his discussion in "England: A Travel Journal" (1941) of a passage from SumT; then suggests that the Tale may have influenced Kazantakis's depiction of a monk in his novel "The Fratricides" (1954).

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Summoner and His Tale