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The hero, a persona of the author lives in an illusion of glory and self-importance. He despises what he cannot understand while he is completely ignorant of the real historical situation of his times. Death saved him from realising the extent of his illusion and insignificance.

Friedrich Nietzsche has always been a bad influence on Greek literature with pretensions of philosophical depth (Kazantzakis, Dragoumis). The mixture of nitzscheanism and naive idealistic nationalism with a hint of archaic rural misogyny, is quite unbearable.