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Serpent and Lily: A Novella with a Manifesto: The Sickness of the Age

by Nikos Kazantzakis, Nikos Kazantzakes · 1906

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Kazantzakis's first published work, in its first English translation and accompanied by an early artistic manifesto, centers on an artist whose infatuation with his model becomes a torment from which only murder can release him

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