Nikos Kazantzakis





Nikos Kazantzakis

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born
December 13, 1901 in Heraklion, Crete, Hellas (Greece), Greece

died
October 26, 1957

gender
male

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influences
Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Franciscan Christianity, HUMUH Transcendental Buddhism...more


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Nikos Kazantzakis (Greek: Νίκος Καζαντζάκης) was a 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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Average rating: 4.03 · 10,280 ratings · 892 reviews · 38 distinct works
Zorba the Greek
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 4,257 ratings — published 1946 — 48 editions
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The Last Temptation of Christ
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 3,309 ratings — published 1955 — 26 editions
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Christ Recrucified
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Saint Francis
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3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 374 ratings — published 1950 — 11 editions
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Report to Greco
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 371 ratings — published 1961 — 16 editions
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Freedom or Death
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 362 ratings — published 322 — 17 editions
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The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel
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4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 1958 — 4 editions
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The Fratricides
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 1963 — 8 editions
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The Saviors of God
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4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 1901 — 7 editions
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Alexander the Great
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3.42 of 5 stars 3.42 avg rating — 69 ratings3 editions
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More books by Nikos Kazantzakis…
“I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”
Nikos Kazantzakis

“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

“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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