Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476706867
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
Disarmingly personal and intensely philosophical, Report to Greco is a fictionalized account of Greek philosopher and writer Nikos Kazantzakis’s own life, a sort of intellectual autobiography that leads readers through his wide-ranging observations on everything from the Hegelian dialectic to the nature of human existence, all framed as a report to the Spanish Renaissance painter El Greco. The assuredness of Kazantzakis’s prose and the nimbleness of his thinking as he grapples with life’s essential questions—who are we, and how should we be in the world?—will inspire awe and more than a little reflection from readers seeking to answer these questions for themselves.
Report to Greco
Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476706867
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
Disarmingly personal and intensely philosophical, Report to Greco is a fictionalized account of Greek philosopher and writer Nikos Kazantzakis’s own life, a sort of intellectual autobiography that leads readers through his wide-ranging observations on everything from the Hegelian dialectic to the nature of human existence, all framed as a report to the Spanish Renaissance painter El Greco. The assuredness of Kazantzakis’s prose and the nimbleness of his thinking as he grapples with life’s essential questions—who are we, and how should we be in the world?—will inspire awe and more than a little reflection from readers seeking to answer these questions for themselves.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476706867
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
Disarmingly personal and intensely philosophical, Report to Greco is a fictionalized account of Greek philosopher and writer Nikos Kazantzakis’s own life, a sort of intellectual autobiography that leads readers through his wide-ranging observations on everything from the Hegelian dialectic to the nature of human existence, all framed as a report to the Spanish Renaissance painter El Greco. The assuredness of Kazantzakis’s prose and the nimbleness of his thinking as he grapples with life’s essential questions—who are we, and how should we be in the world?—will inspire awe and more than a little reflection from readers seeking to answer these questions for themselves.
Zorba the Greek
Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684825546
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A stimulating excursion into the sunnier areas of the human spirit.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684825546
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A stimulating excursion into the sunnier areas of the human spirit.
Buddha
Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
Publisher: San Diego : Avant Books
ISBN:
Category : Greek fiction, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher: San Diego : Avant Books
ISBN:
Category : Greek fiction, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Nikos Kazantzakis
Author: Helen Kazantzakis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Greek (Modern)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Greek (Modern)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Zorba the Greek
Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476782814
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
First published in 1946, "Zorba the Greek," is, on one hand, the story of a Greek working man named Zorba, a passionate lover of life, the unnamed narrator who he accompanies to Crete to work in a lignite mine, and the men and women of the town where they settle. On the other hand it is the story of God and man, The Devil and the Saints; the struggle of men to find their souls and purpose in life and it is about love, courage and faith.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476782814
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
First published in 1946, "Zorba the Greek," is, on one hand, the story of a Greek working man named Zorba, a passionate lover of life, the unnamed narrator who he accompanies to Crete to work in a lignite mine, and the men and women of the town where they settle. On the other hand it is the story of God and man, The Devil and the Saints; the struggle of men to find their souls and purpose in life and it is about love, courage and faith.
The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis
Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691147027
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
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 Kazantzakis scholar Peter Bien, this is the most comprehensive selection of Kazantzakis's letters in any language. One of the most important Greek writers of the twentieth century, Kazantzakis (1883–1957) participated in or witnessed some of the most extraordinary events of his times, including both world wars and the Spanish and Greek civil wars. As a foreign correspondent, an official in several Greek governments, and a political and artistic exile, he led a relentlessly nomadic existence, living in France, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Soviet Union, and England. He visited the Versailles Peace Conference, attended the tenth-anniversary celebration of the Bolshevik Revolution, interviewed Mussolini and Franco, and briefly served as a Greek cabinet minister—all the while producing a stream of novels, poems, plays, travel writing, autobiography, and translations. The letters collected here touch on almost every aspect of Kazantzakis's rich and tumultuous life, and show the genius of a man who was deeply attuned to the artistic, intellectual, and political events of his times.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691147027
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
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 Kazantzakis scholar Peter Bien, this is the most comprehensive selection of Kazantzakis's letters in any language. One of the most important Greek writers of the twentieth century, Kazantzakis (1883–1957) participated in or witnessed some of the most extraordinary events of his times, including both world wars and the Spanish and Greek civil wars. As a foreign correspondent, an official in several Greek governments, and a political and artistic exile, he led a relentlessly nomadic existence, living in France, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Soviet Union, and England. He visited the Versailles Peace Conference, attended the tenth-anniversary celebration of the Bolshevik Revolution, interviewed Mussolini and Franco, and briefly served as a Greek cabinet minister—all the while producing a stream of novels, poems, plays, travel writing, autobiography, and translations. The letters collected here touch on almost every aspect of Kazantzakis's rich and tumultuous life, and show the genius of a man who was deeply attuned to the artistic, intellectual, and political events of his times.
Saint Francis
Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476706832
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Like The Last Temptation of Christ, Saint Francis is a fictionalized biography of a widely venerated Christian figure: Francis of Assisi, whose renunciation of his young man’s life of leisure and founding of a religious order dedicated to living in poverty and sharing the Gospels with all living things profoundly influence the ways in which Christians the world over worship and give service to their god even today. Recounted in Nikos Kazantzakis’s striking prose through the eyes of the saint’s brother, Leo, the life of Saint Francis shines in these pages as a heroic example of inspirational leadership and boundless love for God and all His creatures.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476706832
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Like The Last Temptation of Christ, Saint Francis is a fictionalized biography of a widely venerated Christian figure: Francis of Assisi, whose renunciation of his young man’s life of leisure and founding of a religious order dedicated to living in poverty and sharing the Gospels with all living things profoundly influence the ways in which Christians the world over worship and give service to their god even today. Recounted in Nikos Kazantzakis’s striking prose through the eyes of the saint’s brother, Leo, the life of Saint Francis shines in these pages as a heroic example of inspirational leadership and boundless love for God and all His creatures.
God's Pauper
Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian saints
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian saints
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
El Greco
Author: Greco
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Examines the life and work of Domenicos Theotocopoulous, the sixteenth-century artist who created his greatest works in Spain where he was known as "El Greco."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Examines the life and work of Domenicos Theotocopoulous, the sixteenth-century artist who created his greatest works in Spain where he was known as "El Greco."
Freedom Or Death
Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Crete (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Crete (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description