Subtilitatea formelor discursive în eseul Grădina de piatră de Nikos Kazantzakis

Abstract

This article presents the proteicity of some forms of discourse which combines aesthetics and representations, referring to mentalities and even ideology, in a genuine kind of metatext. Being a pretext for his atipic literature with philosophical insertions, Nikos Kazantzakis’ voyages in China and Japan create the appropriate atmosphere for a temperate fiction and a hyperbolic reality. From this perspective a realistic allegory about the eternal China and the fragile Japan, two sources of chaos and wisdom in the same time, arises. Prefiguring some patterns of a sui generis postmodernism, this writing includes several topical ideas like the universality of a unique religion, the intercultural changes and even the idea of a mankind which recovers the signs of the humanity.

Keywords

• voyage accounting
• the category of sublime
• oriental mystique
• spiritual pilgrimage
• ultimate reality