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re: Brantley's review of Zorba!

Posted by:	Delvino 08:34 am EDT 05/08/15
In reply to:	re: Brantley's review of Zorba! - Kimmelhisway 12:27 am EDT 05/08/15

Others will disagree, but to me there's something a bit reductive and facile about his comparing this complicated character (and his milieu) in Kazantzakis’s novel with Auntie Mame, a denizen of Beekman Place. The hardscrabble, ultimately tragic lives depicted on Crete in 1916 bear little resemblance to the madcap antics of Mame Dennis, but hey, they both became musicals, so why not? But this line in the review makes zero sense to me: "...a nice match for the peculiarly moralistic hedonism of the 1960s..." I saw the brilliantly focused Prince original in 1969, and must've missed the contextual "moralistic hedonism" a glib oxymoron aiming for sociological hindsight but (to me) offering none.

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