birth_date: 1883-02-18 00:00:00
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name: Nikos Kazantzakis
about: Works, including the novel Zorba the Greek (1946) and the epic poem The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (1938), of Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis often contrast the sensual and intellectual facets of human nature. This prolific man, named Νίκος Καζαντζάκης in Greek, also authored essays, tragedies, travel books, and translations of such classics as The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri and Faust of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Like Odysseus the hero, Kazantzakis lived most of his artistic life except the years of World War II outside Greece. "I am a mariner of Odysseus with heart of fire but with mind ruthless and clear," Kazantzakis wrote in Toda Raba (1934). Several of the novels of the author deal with the history and cult Works, including the novel Zorba the Greek (1946) and the epic poem The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (1938), of Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis often contrast the sensual and intellectual facets of human nature. This prolific man, named Νίκος Καζαντζάκης in Greek, also authored essays, tragedies, travel books, and translations of such classics as The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri and Faust of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Like Odysseus the hero, Kazantzakis lived most of his artistic life except the years of World War II outside Greece. "I am a mariner of Odysseus with heart of fire but with mind ruthless and clear," Kazantzakis wrote in Toda Raba (1934). Several of the novels of the author deal with the history and culture of his own country and with the mystical relationship between man and God. In 1957, a single vote lost him the Nobel Prize to the French writer Albert Camus. ...more
death_date: 1957-10-26 00:00:00