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 Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis
 Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis ... fullest is revealed in a series of adventures in Crete.Newest Review: ... same time, that would please the general reading public. He created two opposing characters: a 35-year-old intellectual, a ... more ... Cretan by birth, who has led the life of a bookworm and suddenly feels the urge to get into contact with real life, he rents a lignite mine on the south coast of Crete and sets out to exploit it with simple workmen sharing their simple life.
When he’s waiting in a bar for the ferry, he’s accosted by a 65-year-old workman from Macedonia who asks him if he wants to employ him, he’s capable of doing any job. More opposed characters are not imaginable, but the two men like each other at first sight and so an adventure beg...more |
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Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis: Live Life ! (1282 words)
by - written on 26/01/06 (Very useful, 1738 readings)
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I know nothing about Greek literature, so when I looked for adequate reading matter for our hols on Crete I turned to google and found Nikos Kazantzakis’ ‘Zorba the Greek’. Ah, yes, suddenly the wonderful film from 1964 came back to my mind, older dooyooers may recall Anthony Quinn in the role of Zorbas. I didn’t know that the film was made after Nikos Kazantzakis’ novel, in fact I didn’t know anything about the author at all, now I’ve learnt that the author is not only the most famous Cretan author but he is the most written about and most translated Greek author of modern times, an internationally acclaimed novelist, dramatist, poet and journalist; he narrowly missed ... Read the complete review
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