Nikos Kazantzakis




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 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 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 Christ Recrucified: A Novel
by Nikos Kazantzakis
avg rating 3.95 — 210 ratings — published 1953
22 editions
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Saint Francis Saint Francis
by Nikos Kazantzakis
avg rating 3.86 — 157 ratings — published 1954
8 editions
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Report to Greco Report to Greco
by Nikos Kazantzakis
avg rating 4.07 — 118 ratings — published 1965
11 editions
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Freedom or Death 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 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 Saviours of God
by Nikos Kazantzakis
avg rating 4.15 — 46 ratings — published 1945
2 editions
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Fratricides Fratricides
by Nikos Kazantzakis
avg rating 3.76 — 45 ratings — published 1963
4 editions
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Alexander The Great: A Novel 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)
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"God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises."
Nikos Kazantzakis (Zorba the Greek)
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"I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free."
Nikos Kazantzakis
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