Nikos Kazantzakis

Peter Bien, professor emeritus of English and comparative literature at Dartmouth College, has translated Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation of Christ, Saint Francis, and Report to Greco. He is also the author of an authoritative two-volume study of Kazantzakis's works. 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...

Esta novela escrita entre 1941 y 1943, en la que se inspiró la película protagonizada por Anthony Quinn e Irene Papas, narra la historia de Zorba, un hombre sencillo y un apasionado de la vida que nos descubre su singular sentido de la libertad, el amor y el coraje: "Si hoy tuviera que elegir en el mundo entero un guía espiritual, un "gurú" como lo llaman los indios, seguro que elegiría a Zorba. Porque él tenía lo que un escritorzuelo necesita...

The classic novel, international sensation, and inspiration for the film starring Anthony Quinn explores the struggle between the aesthetic and the rational, the inner life and the life of the mind.
The classic novel Zorba the Greek is the story of two men, their incredible friendship, and the importance of living life to the fullest. Zorba, a Greek working man, is a larger-than-life character, energetic and unpredictable. He accompanies...

A shy, inhibited writer meets a boisterous Greek peasant with an astonishing love for life.

When he hires an eccentric stranger named Zorba to work in a mine he has inherited on Crete, Basil, a timid English writer, finds himself drawn into a world far more exciting and dangerous than any he has known.

This fifteen-year labor of love, an adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's landmark novel that imagines an alternate fate for Jesus Christ, features outstanding performances, bold cinematography, and a transcendent score.