Description
Summary:Driven by the desire to confront reality, the narrator, a young, restless and reserved intellectual, is about to embark for Crete where he intends to exploit a lignite mine. At the port of Piraeus, he meets a man who offers him his services: Alexis Zorba, a great exuberant and warm soul who likes to drink, eat, dance, laugh and make love. With him, the writer will discover the madness of life and redraw his line of existence.
In this novel written between 1941 and 1943, during the darkest hours of the history of modern Greece, Nikos Kazantzaki draws up the balance sheet of an existence placed under the sign of the interior conflict and the philosophical search. Far from the folkloric version popularized by Cacoyannis' film and Anthony Quinn's interpretation, the Alexis Zorba of the novel appears above all as a pretext for a lyrical interrogation on the forms and meaning of freedom.
Product information
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Technical specification
Author : Nikos Kazantzaki
Translator: René Bouchet
Publisher: Actes Sud
Collection : Babel
Language : French
Original language : Modern Greek (after 1453)
Format : Pocket
Presentation : Paperback
Weight : 326 g
- Dimensions
- 11,1 × 17,6 × 3,1 cm
- Number of Pages
- 455