Zorba the Greek [antikvár]

WHO IS ZORBA? He is Everyman with a Greek accent. He is Sinbad crossed with Sancho Pauza. He is the Shavian Life Force poured into a long, lean, fierce-mustached Greek whose 65 years have neither dimmed his hawk eyés nor dülled his pagan laughter. Author Kazant-zakis tried to kill him off in a letter. But he reckons without his own talent. He has created Zorba, but he cannot kill him." —TIME magaziné "Wonderfully moving, superbly written. Zorba be-longs in the gallery of sainted rascals." —The Nation NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS 1885-1957 was the author of more than thirty books of drama, travel, poetry and fiction. Among his novels are The Greek Passión, Freedom or Death, Saint Francis, and The Last Temptation of Christ. His verse epic, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, which takes up the story where Homer left it, has been acclaimed as a masterpiece of this century. Born in Crete, he died in Germany in 1957, the greatest Greek writer of our time, and one of the world's most versatile literary men of letters.