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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. He meets Alexis Zorba, a middle-aged Greek man with a zest for life. Zorba has lived and loved-he is a simple but deep man who lives every moment fully and without shame. As their friendship develops, the Englishman is gradually won over, transformed and inspired along with the reader.
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Zorba the Greek (1946) is Nikos Kazantzakis's most famous work.
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A True Exploration Of Life,
By Majid Alaraimi (Muscat, Oman) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Zorba the Greek (Paperback)
I read the Arabic translation of this book, and I love it. I don't want to recite the novel here but rather would like to share what I grasped from it. It's a true exploration of life in multiple perspectives, through Zorba, the narrator, and the other characters. Regardless of the fact whether they are right or wrong but rather how they perceive, experienced, and live life, and the peace they feel with themselves due to their understanding in the domain of their thinking. For example the monk who shared his views of life and was waiting to know how the narrator feels about them. I believe that Kazantzaki wants the reader to draw his own conclusions about the meaning of life not through the actions and believes of Zorba alone but rather through a spectrum of beliefs. I felt that clearly in chapter 20 when Zorba himself explained that he have more to learn of life. Whenever he get lost clearing things up in his mind he mumbles, then he erases and start seeing things again for the first time. Zorba like any regular person lives in contradictions, and the writer clearly doesn't want to portray him as a perfect human. The reader of this book should try to go beyond the little things and get to the wisdom. A truly great book that explores the answers to the big questions of "What life really is?" "How you want to live it?"The writing of Kazantzaki is spectacular, breathtaking, and truly marvelous. This a true master piece that philosophically teaches us to live life to the fullest by thinking simply, observing timelessly and dancing to the tones of nature endlessly.
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nobility in catastrophe,
By radical reader (waterloo, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Zorba The Greek (Paperback)
Nikos Kazantzakis demonstrates that Nobility does not come from birthright. He shows that Nobility is the willingness and ability to recognize the right action needed in any situation, and to follow through with the action - even if it entails jumping into the abyss. Zorba sees happiness as the first cause of action and the highest virtue is to help the ones you're with become happy. In this quest, Zorba's selfishness allows that the most important thing is what he is doing at the time. A wonderful, radical read.
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A Great Story for All Seasons,
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This review is from: Zorba the Greek (Paperback)
The classic movie starring Anthony Quinn was based upon this book.As the story goes, Alexis Zorba is an old Greek workman who accompanies the narrator, a bookish philosopher, to Crete to exploit a mine he owns there. Zorba is a figure created on a huge scale: his years have not dimmed the flame by which he lives, the gusto with which he responds to all that life offers him, whether he is organizing the work at the mine, coping with mad monks in a mountain monastery, embellishing the endless tale of his past adventures, or making love to Dame Hortense. Nikos Kazantzakis is one of the most distinguished and individual of modern Greek writers, and in Zorba the Greek he has written a book that lives by a vitality and rhythm that seems to owe little or nothing to the comtemporary traditions of the Western novel. It is bursting with wit, fantasy, and enjoyment of life, and at the same time has a continual undertone of serious philosophical reflection. Zorba the Greek is Rabelaisian, a Don Quixote in which the role of the knight and Sancho Panza are reversed, plus a distinct Arabian Nights touch. About the Author
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