Τhe Adventurous Reception of Galatea Kazantzakis in the Interwar Period

The article refers to the particularly hostile reception by the intellectual community of the time of two plays by Galatea Kazantzakis. The writer was an important female presence in Greek literature in the first half of the 20th century, a key representative of the leftist ideology and the first wife of the acclaimed author Nikos Kazantzakis. These plays, having been influenced by the pioneering European currents of the time, proposing new ways of thinking and writing and above all promoting the female presence and action, experienced a reaction unprecedented in the annals of the intellectual life of the time. The rich dialogue caused by their performance, and indeed by While the Ship Sails of the newly founded National Theatre (1932), illuminates in various ways the theatrical and more generally the artistic and intellectual reality of the time, enriching with valuable material the history of ideas in the interwar period.