FREEDOM AND DEATH

Freedom ad Death is Kazatzakis's moder Iliad. The cotext is Crete i the late ieteeth cetury, the epic struggle betwee Greeks ad Turks, betwee Christiaity ad Islam. A ew uprisig takes place to rival those of 1854, 1866 ad 1878 ad the islad is throw ito cofusio yet agai. I the village of Megalokastro a Creta resistace fighter, captai Michales, is matched by the Turkish bay, his blood brother. The life of the local commuity cotiues shakily, but is disrupted by explosios of violece.