Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis was born in Heraklion in 1883, in a Crete that was still Ottoman. He studied law in Athens, then philosophy in Paris under Bergson, and travelled ceaselessly, from Russia to Japan. In 1919, as director general at the Ministry of Welfare, he organised the repatriation of the Greeks of the Caucasus. In 1953, the Orthodox Church attempted to prosecute him over two of his novels, and Rome placed one of them on the Index the following year. He died in Freiburg im Breisgau on 26 October 1957 and was buried on the Martinengo bastion of his native city, beneath an epitaph in which he declares that he hopes for nothing and fears nothing.

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• NovelZorba the GreekΒίος και πολιτεία του Αλέξη ΖορμπάNikos Kazantzakis · 1946Literature