Nikos Kazantzakis
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born
December 13, 1901
died
October 26, 1957
gender
male
place of birth
Iráklion, Crete
genre
Literature & Fiction
influences
Marxism, Nietzsche, Franciscan Christianity, and Buddhism
about this author
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. "I am a mariner of Odysseus with heart of fire but with mind ruthless and clear," 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.
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The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis avg rating 4.09 — 1,486 ratings — published 1961 16 editions |
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Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis avg rating 4.02 — 1,254 ratings — published 1946 40 editions |
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Christ Recrucified: A Novel by Nikos Kazantzakis avg rating 3.95 — 210 ratings — published 1953 22 editions |
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Saint Francis by Nikos Kazantzakis avg rating 3.86 — 157 ratings — published 1954 8 editions |
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Report to Greco by Nikos Kazantzakis avg rating 4.07 — 118 ratings — published 1965 11 editions |
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Freedom or Death (A Touchstone Book) by Nikos Kazantzakis avg rating 3.93 — 117 ratings — published 1953 9 editions |
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The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (Touchstone Books (Paperback)) by Nikos Kazantzakis avg rating 4.31 — 61 ratings — published 1985 2 editions |
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Saviours of God by Nikos Kazantzakis avg rating 4.15 — 46 ratings — published 1945 2 editions |
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Fratricides by Nikos Kazantzakis avg rating 3.76 — 45 ratings — published 1963 4 editions |
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Alexander The Great: A Novel by Nikos Kazantzakis avg rating 3.28 — 29 ratings — published 1982 3 editions |
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"This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale."
— Nikos Kazantzakis (Zorba the Greek)
— Nikos Kazantzakis (Zorba the Greek)
"God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises."
— Nikos Kazantzakis (Zorba the Greek)
— Nikos Kazantzakis (Zorba the Greek)
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