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Nikos Kazantzakis
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I hope for nothing. |
Δεν ελπίζω τίποτα. | |
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I fear nothing. |
Δεν φοβούμαι τίποτα. | |
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I am free. |
Είμαι λεύτερος. |
| Nikos
Kazantzakis was born on February 18th 1883 in Iraklion. In all of his 74
years of life he worked with all forms of the written word. His many works
are heavily influenced by his spiritual search, which got him into contact
with Buddhism, Christianity, Marxism, Nietzsche and Bergson.
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addition to his spiritual search Kazantzakis was deeply involved in
politics.
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| Furthermore he made a lot of journeys, as well as he lived outside Greece for a number of years. |
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the last part of his life he wrote a large number of novels, which have
been translated
into almost
any
language and made him internationally known.
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Denmark he is probably best known through Cacoyannis' (Greek
Cypriot film director)
screen version
of his novel Zorba the Greek.
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fortunately some of his books or extracts from them have been translated
into Danish too.
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| Nikos
Kazantzakis died from leukaemia on October 26th 1957 in Freiburg in
Germany and his coffin was taken to Iraklion, where he - followed by a
crowd of people - was buried on the Martinego bastion on the Venetian town
walls.
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