Nikos Kazantzakis (Heraclión, 1883 - Friburgo de Brisgovia, 1957) fue autor de una extensa obra, entre la que se cuentan novelas, libros de viajes, poemas y ensayos. Entre sus libros más conocidos destacan, además de la presente novel...
Nikos Kazantzakis inició su carrera literaria con. la publicaciónbajo el seudónimo de Karma. Nirvamide un desesperado conjuro de amor: Lirio y serpiente, publicado por primera vez en. Atenas en 1906. Escrito a los veintid...
Likóvrissi és un poble de grecs cristians sota domini turc, a principis del segle XX. Cada set anys, per Setmana Santa, s?hi interpreta un Misteri en què els paisans fan de Crist i d?apòstols. El pope els alliçona perqu&...
En Jesús és un senzill fuster de Natzaret que fabrica creus per als romans. Malvist pels jueus perquè col·labora amb l?ocupant fornint-li el material per als suplicis, i sentint-se culpable d?haver abocat a la prostitució...
Kezka existentzialez jositako idazle gazte batek etsi du bere introspekzio filosofikoek sobera urrundu dutela bere lagun hurkoengandik, eta erabakitzen du bizitza berri bat hastea Kretan, hango natura idor eta jende xumearen artean. Kretarako ontzia hartz...
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 Kazantzak...
Set before the start of the First World War, this moving fable sees a young English 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...
Kazantzakis's classic novel, blacklisted by the Vatican, filmed by Scorsese, has been labelled heretical, blasphemous and a masterpiece. His Christ is an epic conception, wholly original.
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,...
'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 Chrisianity and Islam. A new uprising takes place to rival those of 1854, 1866 and 1878,...