Nikos Kazantzakis: 10 books

As a writer and philosopher, Nikos Kazantzakis struggled all his life with existential questions, once spending several months in a monastery in an attempt to attain a closer relationship with God. His relentless quest to understand the nature of life through travel, extensive reading, and constant...

Disarmingly personal and intensely philosophical, Report to Greco is a fictionalized account of Greek philosopher and writer Nikos Kazantzakis’s own life, a sort of intellectual autobiography that leads readers through his wide-ranging observations on everything from the Hegelian dialectic to the...

Het volgende meesterwerk van Nikos Kazantzakis, auteur van Leven en wandel van Zorbás de Griek In de jaren na de Russische Revolutie komt een groep haveloze vluchtelingen een welvarend Grieks dorp in het Osmaanse Turkije binnenlopen. De vluchtelingen – vrouwen, oude mannen en kinderen, onder aanvoering...

Like The Last Temptation of Christ, Saint Francis is a fictionalized biography of a widely venerated Christian figure: Francis of Assisi, whose renunciation of his young man’s life of leisure and founding of a religious order dedicated to living in poverty and sharing the Gospels with all living...

The internationally renowned novel about the life and death of Jesus Christ. Hailed as a masterpiece by critics worldwide, The Last Temptation of Christ is a monumental reinterpretation of the Gospels that brilliantly fleshes out Christ’s Passion. This literary rendering of the life of Jesus...

Like his The Last Temptation of Christ, literary master Nikos Kazantzakis’s The Greek Passion is a daring exploration of the pitfalls of a religion as it is practiced by its all-too-human followers. The tiny Greek village of Lycovrisi is planning its annual Passion play when its customary tranquility...

A continuation of Homer’s epic poem, Kazantzakis’s own Odyssey finds Odysseus once again leaving Ithaca on finding that the satisfactions of home and hearth are not as he remembered them. Following an encounter with the former Helen of Troy (now returned to her husband, the king of Sparta, after...

The classic novel, international sensation, and inspiration for the film starring Anthony Quinn explores the struggle between the aesthetic and the rational, the inner life and the life of the mind. The classic novel Zorba the Greek is the story of two men, their incredible friendship, and...

Leven en wandel van Zorbás de Griek is het wereldberoemde verhaal van de vriendschap tussen een teruggetrokken schrijver die voortdurend wordt geplaagd door twijfels en die alles probeert te beredeneren, en een levenskunstenaar die vertrouwt op zijn gevoel en instinct en die in volledige harmonie...

‘Vrijheid of dood’ is de leuze van de Griekse opstandelingen op Kreta die aan het einde van de 19de eeuw vochten tegen de Turkse overheersers. Kapitein Michalis is een van de verzetsleiders, een held met twee kanten: gevreesd door de Turken, maar ook door de Grieken met zijn eigenzinnige persoonlijkheid...