Who is Nikos Kazantzakis?
Peripatetic and Prolific are two words if they did not already exist; we have had to invent them to describe the life of Kazantzakis! He was born in 1883 on the island of Crete which was then still a part of the Ottoman Empire. Kazantzakis moved to Paris in 1908 where he began to study under Henri Bergson a philosopher whose work emphasized intuition and experience rather than logic. Under Bergson, Kazantzakis studied Nietzsche, from who he absorbed about the struggle inherent in life. Here are some of his major works: 1- Zorba the Greek 2- The Last Temptation 3- Freedom and Death 4- The Greek Passion (Christ Recrucified) 5- The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (I want this book guys!!) 6- Saviors of God 7- The Fratricides (This one is about the Greek civil war) 8- Report to Greco (His spiritual autobiography) He died on October 26, 1957, of the Asiatic flue. His grave is in Germany. By the way, all his books are well worth reading!! Every word Nikos wrote is still reverberating with life and
