The Fratricides Author:Nikos Kazantzakis Translated from the Greek by Athena Gianaka Dallas. First printing. — "The Fratricides" is Nikos Kazantzakis' last novel. The subject is the Greek Civil War. The Communists and the Monarchists are tearing each other to pieces, brother killing brother, whole villages decimating themselves in an endless succession of murders. The hero is one of Kaz... more »antzakis' most powerful creations: Father Yanaros, the Christ-like priest of a small Greek village whose own son is fighting in the parched mountains, and who sees his people descending deeper and deeper into savagery. Yanaros is the personification of Kazantzakis' own passions and conflicts: a deeply religious man, he cannot bring himself to accept a God who has made the world so cruel a place; a humane and humble man, he is still subject to moments of cruelty, and horrified at the depths of his own pride. Despite the evidence of man's barbarism that he sees all around him, despite his self-knowedge, despite the agonizing conflict between himself and his own son, Yanaros, like Kazantzakis, believes in Man.« less