Zorba the Greek

Zorba the Greek
By
Nikos Kazantzakis
(1883 - 1957)

Everyone of us has to get a copy of the book and the movie, so that we can have a good discussion the next time we get to go to Papadakis Taverna! Opah!

http://www.interkriti.org/culture/kazantzakis/kazantz2.htm

Yiorgis Zorbas,on whom Zorba the Greek was modeled,had worked with Nikos Kazantzakis on a project involving coal and wood to support the war.

One of the most important Greek writers, poets and philosophers of the 20th century, was born in Iraklion in 1883. In 1906 he graduated from the Athens Law School and continued his studies in Paris (1907-1909). During the Balkan Wars he fought as a volunteer in the Greek Army. After the Wars he traveled to many European and Asian countries, publishinhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.spell.gifg travelogues from his trips (Spain, Egypt-Sina, China-Japan, Russia, England etc.)

Kazantzakis, much more of a philosopher than a writer, was deeply influenced by the writings of Nietzsche and Bergen, and the philosophies of Christianity, Marxism and Buddhism. In his work, he attempted to synthesize these different world views.

http://www.interkriti.org/culture/kazantzakis/kazantz2.htm
http://www.historical-museum.gr/kazantzakis/index1.html