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Letter of October 21, 1926 (translated by Amy Mims; "Nikos Kazantzakis, A Biography" by Helen Kazantzakis, 1968)
"Corfu marvelous-but only for a short time. The mountains, the sea, the colours all exquisite, but pathetic, amolissants (devitalizing), soporific, fatal to any fighting soul".
I know what he meant about the island being devitalising and soporific- especially in the heat of August.
Kazantzakis had the Corfu blues.
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- Author of Words on the Table (207 poems); This Spinning World (45 Stories), Colenso Books; Reading the Signs (environmental poems); Corfu Blues (poems and essays); The Ionian Islands and Epirus, A Cultural History (Signal Books, Oxford, and OUP, USA, 2010); co-editor of Swedish Reflections, from Beowulf to Bergman; Dorset Voices (Roving Press, April 2012). Chapter in Greece and Britain Since 1945 (2010). Two chapters in The Ionian Islands: Aspects of their History and Culture, ed. Anthony Hirst and Patrick Sammon, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 3) Grockles and Locals: Mutual Perceptions and the Reciprocal Gaze, A Corfu Case Study (40 page chapter for US book Tourism and Identity (Transaction Publishers, ed Gabriel Ricci, 2015). NB - The author of Corfu Blues is not responsible for the content of links or external sites.