Βίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά
Nikos Kazantzakis, 1946
A bookish man and a wild workman try to run a Cretan mine; one of them knows how to live.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Feels like freedom, hope and identity.
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Kazantzakis met the real George Zorbas in 1915; they ran a lignite mine in the Mani, and the novel grew from that friendship.
Two ways to live with death, argued over a newly planted almond tree.
Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. ‘What, grandfather!’ I exclaimed. ‘Planting an almond tree?’ And he, bent as he was, turned around and said: ‘My son, I carry on as if I should never die.’ I replied: ‘And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.’Which of us was right, boss? Books by Nikos Kazantzakis
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Νίκος Καζαντζάκης, 1961
A restless spiritual autobiography about the struggles, loyalties and ideas that shape a life—and the artist's effort to give them form.
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