TY - JOUR N2 - This paper focuses on the magnum opus of the well-known Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957), The Odyssey, which even in the author’s country is still astonishingly neglected due to its complexity and obscure language. First published in 1938, in more than 30,000 seventeen-syllable verses, the work describes the subsequent history of Homer’s Odysseus who after killing the suitors, bored with life in Ithaca, sets out on a quest for metaphysical transcendence. Attention is given not only to the reinterpretation of the Homeric hero who becomes the alter ego of the writer, but to a larg extent also to the successive phases of metamorphoses of the epic poem’s protagonist. As it turns out, the latter-day Odysseus, negating everything and yet not ceasing to fight, on his way goes through three stages proposed by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855): the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/109011/PDF/9%20BZINKOWSKI.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/109011 EP - 146 DO - 10.24425/meander.2018.124967 A1 - Bzinkowski, Michał PB - Komitet Nauk o Kulturze Antycznej PAN VL - Vol. 73 (2018) DA - 2018.12.14 T1 - Heading for Absolute Freedom: An Outline for the Profile of the Protagonist of Nikos Kazantzakis’ "Odyssey" SP - 121 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/109011 T2 - Meander ER -