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Kazantzakis's classic novel, blacklisted by the Vatican, filmed by
Scorsese, has been labelled heretical, blasphemous, and also a
masterpiece. His Christ is an epic conception, wholly original.
'When Kazantzakis describes the raising of Lazarus, the early life
of Mary Magdalene, the domestic lives of Martha and Mary, it is as
if an old box of lantern slides had suddenly become a moving
picture. The author has achieved a new and moving interpretation of
a truly human Christ.' Times Literary Supplement
Freedom and Death is Kazantzakis's modern Iliad. The context is
Crete in the late nineteenth century, the epic struggle between
Greeks and Turks, between Christianity and Islam. A new uprising
takes place to rival those of 1854, 1866 and 1878, and the island
is thrown into confusion yet again. In the village of Megalokastro
a Cretan resistance fighter, Captain Michales, is matched by the
Turkish bey, his blood-brother. The life of the local community
continues shakily, but is disrupted by explosions of violence.
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 Christ has courted
controversy since its publication by depicting a Christ far more
human than the one seen in the Bible. He is a figure who is
gloriously divine but earthy and human, a man like any
other--subject to fear, doubt, and pain. In elegant, thoughtful
prose Nikos Kazantzakis, one of the greats of modern literature,
follows this Jesus as he struggles to live out God's will for him,
powerfully suggesting that it was Christ's ultimate triumph over
his flawed humanity, when he gave up the temptation to run from the
cross and willingly laid down his life for mankind, that truly made
him the venerable redeemer of men. "Spiritual dynamite." --San
Francisco Chronicle "A searing, soaring, shocking novel." --Time
This autobiographical novel is one of the last things written by
Kazantzakis before he died in 1957. It paints a vivid picture of
his childhood in Crete, and then steadily grows into a spiritual
quest that takes him to Italy, Jerusalem, Paris, Vienna, Berlin and
Russia.
The Fratricides is about internecine strife in a village in the
Epirus during the Greek civil war of the late 1940s. Many of the
villagers, including Captain Drakos, son of the local priest Father
Yanaros, have taken to the mountains and joined the Communist
rebels. It is Holy Week and, with murder, death and destruction
everywhere, Father Yanaros feels that he himself is bearing the
sins of the world.
This moving fable sees a young Greek writer set out to Crete to
claim a small inheritance. But when he arrives, he meets Alexis
Zorba, a middle-aged Greek man with a zest for life. Zorba has had
a family and many lovers, has fought in the Balkan wars, has lived
and loved - he is a simple but deep man who lives every moment
fully and without shame. As their friendship develops, he is
gradually won over, transformed and inspired along with the reader.
Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis' most popular and enduring
novel, has its origins in the author's own experiences in the
Peleponnesus in the 1920s. His swashbuckling hero has legions of
fans across the world and his adventures are as exhilarating now as
they were on first publication in the 1950s. 'There can never be
any doubt that Kazantzakis was the possessor of genius.' Sunday
Telegraph
The inhabitants of a Greek village, ruled by the Turks, plan to
enact the life of Christ in a mystery play but are overwhelmed by
their task. A group of refugees, fleeing from the ruins of their
plundered homes, arrive asking for protection - and suddenly the
drama of the Passion becomes reality.
The life of Nikos Kazantzakis—the author of Zorba the Greek and
The Last Temptation of Christ—was as colorful and eventful as his
fiction. And nowhere is his life revealed more fully or
surprisingly than in his letters. Edited and translated by
Kazantzakis scholar Peter Bien, this is the most comprehensive
selection of Kazantzakis's letters in any language. One of the most
important Greek writers of the twentieth century, Kazantzakis
(1883–1957) participated in or witnessed some of the most
extraordinary events of his times, including both world wars and
the Spanish and Greek civil wars. As a foreign correspondent, an
official in several Greek governments, and a political and artistic
exile, he led a relentlessly nomadic existence, living in France,
Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Soviet Union,
and England. He visited the Versailles Peace Conference, attended
the tenth-anniversary celebration of the Bolshevik Revolution,
interviewed Mussolini and Franco, and briefly served as a Greek
cabinet minister—all the while producing a stream of novels,
poems, plays, travel writing, autobiography, and translations. The
letters collected here touch on almost every aspect of
Kazantzakis's rich and tumultuous life, and show the genius of a
man who was deeply attuned to the artistic, intellectual, and
political events of his times.
Nikos Kazantzakis is no stranger to the heroes of Greek antiquity.
In this historical novel based on the life of Alexander the Great,
Kazantzakis has drawn on both the rich tradition of Greek legend
and the documented manuscripts from the archives of history to
recreate an Alexander in all his many-faceted images—Alexander
the god; Alexander the descendant of Heracles performing the twelve
labors; Alexander the mystic, the daring visionary destined to
carry out a divine mission; Alexander the flesh-and-blood mortal
who, on occasion, is not above the common soldier’s brawling and
drinking. The novel, which resists the temptation to portray
Alexander in the mantle of purely romantic legend, covers his life
from age fifteen to his death at age thirty-two. It opens with
Alexander’s first exploit, the taming of the horse, Bucephalas,
and is seen in great part through the eyes of his young neighbor
who eventually becomes an officer in his army and follows him on
his campaign to conquer the world. The book, which was written
primarily as an educational adjunct for young readers, is intended
for the adult mind as well, and like the legends of old, is
entertaining as well as instructive for readers of all ages. It was
originally published in Greece in serial form in 1940, and was
republished in a complete volume in 1979.
The Terrestrial Gospel is an anthology of passages selected from
various books by Kazantzakis, centering on Nature and the workers
of the soil. A powerful and poetic work that raises environmental
awareness and calls us to compassionate action, the book contains
new translations from the Greek originals to English, some original
poems by Maskaleris, a Preface by Jean-Michel Cousteau, and an
illuminating essay by ecologist, author, and film-maker, Michael
Tobias. Love supports survival... Nikos Kazantzakis' love of Nature
inspired him to write beautiful hymns to Her and to the human life
rooted in the soil - as the selections for this Anthology movingly
demonstrate. Having grown up on the fascinating island of Crete -
close to trees, animals and wild peasants - he absorbed and
retained the terrestrial life in his soul, and made it bloom in
brilliant descriptions throughout all of his works. These poetic
tributes are not mere "decor" but a vital source of ever
regenerative human life, biological growth, individual spirit and
ecological community. It is a poetic vision that is at once
communal, and global, from one of the 20th century's greatest
writers.
With the help of the princess Ariadne and other friends in the palace at Crete, Theseus enters the Labyrinth and slays the hideous Minotaur, thus spearheading the resistance of the Athenian people against King Minos.
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