Nikos Kazantzakis

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Where's a good place to start?

Tape Store, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 02:02 (sixteen years ago) link

zorba the greek of course

Zeno, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 02:34 (sixteen years ago) link

(fwiw, i'm most fascinated by the plot of Last Temptation...is your answer the same?)

Tape Store, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 04:02 (sixteen years ago) link

I am drawing a blank here on the Katzantzakis book I read in the late 1970s that I enjoyed most. My memory wants to tell me it was an autobiography. I recall bits of it were set in the Sinai and on Mt. Athos. It concerned his spiritual struggles mainly. Sorry. Can't say anything more definite than that.

Anyway, stay away from his continuation of the Odyssey; his ego totally ran way with him on that one.

Aimless, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 04:27 (sixteen years ago) link

Anyway, stay away from his continuation of the Odyssey; his ego totally ran way with him on that one.

Yeah, I haven't actually read the original; I wouldn't consider a sequel.

Do you remember Saint Francis? Or The Greek Passion?

Tape Store, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 05:12 (sixteen years ago) link

my answer is the same:
start with zorba,finish with zorba.move on.

Zeno, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 12:38 (sixteen years ago) link


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