Where should I start with Kazantzakis? The "sequel" to the Odyssey seems really interesting but it's fucking enormous...
>He is abandoned by Helen who runs off with a black slave and continues to Egypt where again a workers' uprising takes place. He leaves again on a journey up the Nile eventually stopping at the lake-source. Upon arrival his companions set up camp and he climbs the mountain in order to concentrate on his god. Upon his return to the lake he sets up his city based on the commandments of his religion. The city is soon destroyed by an earthquake. Odysseus laments his failure to understand the true meaning of god with the sacrifice of his companions. His life transforms into that of an ascetic. Odysseus meets Motherth (an incarnation of the Buddha), Kapetán Énas (English: Captain Sole, literally "Captain One", a Greek folk expression for people who are insubordinate and single-minded to a fault), alias Don Quixote, and an African village fisherman, alias Jesus. He travels further south in Africa while constantly spreading his religion and fighting the advances of death. Eventually he travels to Antarctica and lives with villagers for a year until an iceberg kills him. His death is glorious as it marks his rebirth and unification with the world.
Last Temptation
>>7883421
Zorba. I think Zorba is the simplest demonstration of his overall philosophy which plays itself out more fantastically in Last Temptation, and long-form in Odyssey 2.
>>7883421
Zorba is good , but if you want to read some quality from Kazantzakis ( and if you know philosophy ) then you should read ''ascesi'' ( Aσkητιkη )
>>7885108
Interested. Is it Greek only? Kazantzakis got me into lit.
>>7885503
i didn't found a site where you can download it but i found where you can read it. http://www.angel.net/~nic/askitiki.html
