Zorba the Greek
by Nikos Kazantzakis
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Author: Nikos KazantzakisEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1996-12-20
ISBN: 0684825546
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Touchstone
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Summary: 5 Stars
Zorba The Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis is one of the truly finest books I have read. It is full of life, warm heated exploits of a 65 year old Macedonian Greek who meets a bookish man, "Boss", from Britain. The writer has come to Crete to take up business as part of his inheritance. It is a lignite mine. Zorba is a man of many skills and succeeds in persuading the Boss to hire him to cook and supervise the work in the mine. A friendship begins where the different look towards life, philosophy, religion, women, humans as seen by the Greek Zorba and the English born Boss follows. Sprinkling of Buddhism is well placed to challenge the prevalent beliefs of Christians and their claims over God and world. While Zorba represents the zest of life, sunny spirit of warm weather countries the Boss represents the logical, cold weather view. Zorba wins. He shows that Christianity and the claims of West Europeans are often not what God would want for his children, the humans. The descriptions of the land, the beauty, the smells of orange blossoms by Kazantzakis come to life in the readers. Savagery and brute behavior of Greeks is also depicted as in the murder of a woman by a mob. Zorba despite his past horrors and views of women comes to her defense risking his life. In this the writer has raised the character of Zorba beyond the claims that he is a womanizer and out to satisfy his sensual urges only. He challenges the religious views of Christians, monks and ridicules their fanaticism. God and Devil are the one and same for him and change their place. For this perhaps Kazantzakis earned the wrath of religious Christians. Any-way if you are a deeply religious Christian or feminist this book may be offensive and please do not read it. But if you are inclined towards humanistic look at man kind and are willing to look beyond and see that God created all life including humans free from guilt, to live and be happy without being offensive then this book is a must read. A great piece of literature, for Zorba will live on for a "1000 years."
Summary of Zorba the Greek
A fiftieth anniversary edition of the famous novel that inspired the film tells the story of Zorba, a philosophizing, larger-than-life mine owner who confronts life with exuberance and wit. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. NYT.Classics Books
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