In this book, Charitini Christodoulou argues that a certain perception of openness that she calls "dialogic" permeates Nikos Kazantzakis' The Last Temptation. Partly based on Umberto Eco's theory in Opera Aperta and Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of dialogism, the term "dialogic openness" refers to the idea of antithetical forces clashing and thus revealing different forms of tension that are not resolved at the end of the novel. Thus, it is shown that subjectivity and meaning is always in the proc...