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The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis - (Princeton Modern Greek Studies) Annotated (Paperback)

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  • The life of Nikos Kazantzakis--the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ--was as colorful and eventful as his fiction.
  • About the Author: Peter Bien, professor emeritus of English and comparative literature at Dartmouth College, has translated Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation of Christ, Saint Francis, and Report to Greco.
  • 904 Pages
  • Biography + Autobiography, Literary Figures
  • Series Name: Princeton Modern Greek Studies

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The life of Nikos Kazantzakis--the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ--was as colorful and eventful as his fiction. And nowhere is his life revealed more fully or surprisingly than in his letters. Edited and translated by Kazantzakis scholar Peter Bien, this is the most comprehensive selection of Kazantzakis's letters in any language.

One of the most important Greek writers of the twentieth century, Kazantzakis (1883-1957) participated in or witnessed some of the most extraordinary events of his times, including both world wars and the Spanish and Greek civil wars. As a foreign correspondent, an official in several Greek governments, and a political and artistic exile, he led a relentlessly nomadic existence, living in France, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Soviet Union, and England. He visited the Versailles Peace Conference, attended the tenth-anniversary celebration of the Bolshevik Revolution, interviewed Mussolini and Franco, and briefly served as a Greek cabinet minister--all the while producing a stream of novels, poems, plays, travel writing, autobiography, and translations. The letters collected here touch on almost every aspect of Kazantzakis's rich and tumultuous life, and show the genius of a man who was deeply attuned to the artistic, intellectual, and political events of his times.



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"[T]he best possible place to start to try to understand a remarkable writer."---Mark Mazower, Times Literary Supplement

"In a very real sense, the present volume is the raw material of the biography, turned into an enjoyable repast by the skillful hand of its editor."---David Holton, Anglo-Hellenic Review



About the Author



Peter Bien, professor emeritus of English and comparative literature at Dartmouth College, has translated Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation of Christ, Saint Francis, and Report to Greco. He is also the author of an authoritative two-volume study of Kazantzakis's works.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.1 Inches (H) x 6.1 Inches (W) x 2.2 Inches (D)
Weight: 2.85 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: Princeton Modern Greek Studies
Sub-Genre: Literary Figures
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Number of Pages: 904
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
Language: English
Street Date: June 9, 2020
TCIN: 89990904
UPC: 9780691203171
Item Number (DPCI): 247-25-5950
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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