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Freedom and Death
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 …
Report to Greco
Kazantzakis's autobiographical novel Report to Greco was one of the last things he wrote before he died. It paints a vivid picture of his childhood in Crete, still occupied by the …
The Last Temptation
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, …
At the Palaces of Knossos
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 …
The Fratricides
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 …
The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis
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 …
God's Pauper
Alexander The Great
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 …
Alexis Sorbas
Der berühmte Roman über Alexis Sorbas, den urwüchsigen Philosophen des einfachen Herzens, der alle Berufe kennt, "die man mit Fuß, Hand und Kopf" ausüben kann. Eine Liebeserklärung …
Christ Recrucified
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 …
Alexis Sorbas
Der weltberühmte und vielfach preisgekrönte Roman über ein schicksalhaftes Abenteuer auf Kreta wurde mit Anthony Quinn in der Hauptrolle zum unvergesslichen Filmklassiker: Der …