Nikos Kazantzakis

I FIRST met him in Piraeus. I wanted to take the boat for Crete and had gone down to the port. It was almost daybreak and raining. A strong sirocco was blowing the spray from the waves as far as the little café, whose glass doors were shut The café reeked of brewing ^ge and hiunan beings whose...

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...

I •¦v I FIRST met him in Piraeus. I wanted to take the boat for Crete and had gone down to the port. It was almost daybreak and raining. A strong sirocco was blowing the spray í, ' ' j from the waves as far as the little café, whose glass doors i : j , ( t were shut. The café reeked of...

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1 Es blies ein linder, kühlender Wind, der ihn mit sich zog. Über ihm spannten die flammenden Sterne ihr Netz, der Himmel stand voller Blumen, zu seinen Füßen dampften die Steine nodi von der Hitze des Tages. Himmel und Erde waren in ein tiefes, von Jahrhunderten geschaffenes Schweigen...