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  <name><![CDATA[Nikos Kazantzakis]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Prolific Greek writer, whose works include essays, novels, poems, tragedies, travel books, and translations of such classics as Dante's The Divine Comedy and J.W. von Goethe's Faust. Like his hero, Odysseus, Kazantzakis lived most of his artistic life outside Greece-except for the years of World War II. &quot;I am a mariner of Odysseus with heart of fire but with mind ruthless and clear,&quot; Kazantzakis wrote in TODA RABA (1934). Several of the author's novels deal with the history and culture of his own country, and the mystical relationship between man and God. In 1957 he lost the Nobel Prize by a single vote to the French writer Albert Camus.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Marxism, Nietzsche, Franciscan Christianity, and Buddhism]]></influences>  <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Iráklion, Crete</hometown>  <born_at>12/13/1901</born_at>  <died_at>10/26/1957</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Last Temptation of Christ]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Nikos Kazantzakis]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.10</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1504</ratings_count>
  <published>1961</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Zorba the Greek]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Nikos Kazantzakis]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.02</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1284</ratings_count>
  <published>1946</published>  
  
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        <book id="82531">
  <title><![CDATA[Christ Recrucified: A Novel]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Nikos Kazantzakis]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.96</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>217</ratings_count>
  <published>1953</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Saint Francis]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Nikos Kazantzakis]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.86</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>159</ratings_count>
  <published>1954</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Report to Greco]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Nikos Kazantzakis]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.09</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>122</ratings_count>
  <published>1965</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Freedom or Death (A Touchstone Book)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Nikos Kazantzakis]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.92</average_rating>
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  <published>1953</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (Touchstone Books (Paperback))]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Nikos Kazantzakis]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.31</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>62</ratings_count>
  <published>1985</published>  
  
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        <book id="74006">
  <title><![CDATA[Saviours of God]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Nikos Kazantzakis]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.17</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>48</ratings_count>
  <published>1945</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Fratricides]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Nikos Kazantzakis]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.74</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>47</ratings_count>
  <published>1963</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Sodom and Gomorrah and Comedy: A Tragedy in One Act]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Nikos Kazantzakis]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.67</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>27</ratings_count>
  <published>1362</published>  
  
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