"Nikos Kazantzakis was one of the great literary letter writers of the twentieth century, and this eagerly awaited volume is the first fully representative selection of his correspondence in any language. Providing rich insights into the workings of his mind, this expertly annotated volume is a mile[...]

Against the background of the Greek civil war of the late 1940s, Captain Drakos, son of the local priest Father Yanaros, has taken to the mountains with a group of villagers and joined the Communist rebels. It is Holy Week and Father Yanaros feels that he himself is bearing the sins of the world.[...]

This is Kazantzakis's modern "Iliad". Set in late-19th-century Crete, when a new uprising takes place to rival those of 1854, 1866 and 1878. In the village of Megalokastro, a Cretan resistance fighter named Captain Michales, is matched by the Turkish bey, his blood-brother.[...]

This autobiographical novel is one of the last things written by Kazantzakis before he died in 1957. It paints a vivid picture of his childhood in Crete, and then steadily grows into a spiritual quest that takes him to Italy, Jerusalem, Paris, Vienna, Berlin and Russia.[...]

Set before the start of the First World War, this fable sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance. But when he arrives, he meets Alexis Zorba, a middle-aged Greek man with a zest for life. As their friendship develops, the Englishman is gradually won over, transformed[...]

Hailed as a masterpiece by critics worldwide, "The Last Temptation of Christ" is a monumental reinterpretation of the Gospels by one of the giants of modern literature. Nikos Kazantzakis, renowned author of "Zorba the Greek, " brilliantly fleshes out the story of Christ's Passion, giving it a dynami[...]

Gottfried Grunewalds översättning av Nikos Kazantzakis Odysseia tjugotredje sången.