The Spiritual Odyssey of Nikos Kazantzakis
Author: Kimon Friar
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13:
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Saviors of God
Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-09-04
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 1476706824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs a writer and philosopher, Nikos Kazantzakis struggled all his life with existential questions, once spending several months in a monastery in an attempt to attain a closer relationship with God. His relentless quest to understand the nature of life through travel, extensive reading, and constant conversation with a diverse array of compatriots ultimately led Kazantzakis to compose this book of "spiritual exercises" meant to help the reader achieve harmony between the countervailing human impulses toward an immortality-seeking asceticism and toward a more nihilistic and materialist view of death. As with all Kazantzakis’s philosophical works, The Saviors of God sheds light on a mind uniquely suited to a nuanced examination of what it means to be human, and establishes a hopeful vision for a dazzlingly syncretic approach to spiritual life.
Saint Francis
Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-09-04
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1476706832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLike The Last Temptation of Christ, Saint Francis is a fictionalized biography of a widely venerated Christian figure: Francis of Assisi, whose renunciation of his young man’s life of leisure and founding of a religious order dedicated to living in poverty and sharing the Gospels with all living things profoundly influence the ways in which Christians the world over worship and give service to their god even today. Recounted in Nikos Kazantzakis’s striking prose through the eyes of the saint’s brother, Leo, the life of Saint Francis shines in these pages as a heroic example of inspirational leadership and boundless love for God and all His creatures.
Zorba the Greek
Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1996-12-20
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0684825546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA stimulating excursion into the sunnier areas of the human spirit.
Brill's Companion to Prequels, Sequels, and Retellings of Classical Epic
Author: Robert C Simms
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-07-17
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9004360921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe epics of ancient Greece and Rome are unique in that many went unfinished, or if they were finished, remained open to further narration that was beyond the power, interest, or sometimes the life-span of the poet. Such incompleteness inaugurated a tradition of continuance and closure in their reception. Brill’s Companion to Prequels, Sequels, and Retellings of Classical Epic explores this long tradition of continuing epics through sequels, prequels, retellings and spin-offs. This collection of essays brings together several noted scholars working in a variety of fields to trace the persistence of this literary effort from their earliest instantiations in the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer to the contemporary novels of Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Atwood.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Author: Helen Kazantzakis
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 0
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Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-12-23
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1476782814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1946, "Zorba the Greek," is, on one hand, the story of a Greek working man named Zorba, a passionate lover of life, the unnamed narrator who he accompanies to Crete to work in a lignite mine, and the men and women of the town where they settle. On the other hand it is the story of God and man, The Devil and the Saints; the struggle of men to find their souls and purpose in life and it is about love, courage and faith.
Creative Destruction
Author: Lewis Owens
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780865548039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOwens (religious studies, Canterbury Christ Church U. College) seeks to clarify the philosophical and religious views of playwright, journalist, and novelist Kazantzakis (1883-1957), arguing that his religious philosophy led him to transcend both communism and nihilism enroute to a union with god. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (bookn
Report to Greco
Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-09-18
Total Pages: 571
ISBN-13: 1476706867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDisarmingly personal and intensely philosophical, Report to Greco is a fictionalized account of Greek philosopher and writer Nikos Kazantzakis’s own life, a sort of intellectual autobiography that leads readers through his wide-ranging observations on everything from the Hegelian dialectic to the nature of human existence, all framed as a report to the Spanish Renaissance painter El Greco. The assuredness of Kazantzakis’s prose and the nimbleness of his thinking as he grapples with life’s essential questions—who are we, and how should we be in the world?—will inspire awe and more than a little reflection from readers seeking to answer these questions for themselves.
God's Pauper
Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
Publisher:
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13:
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