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	Heraklion Nikos Kazantzakis: Information about Nikos Kazantzakis in Heraklion, Crete
		Nikos Kazantzakis: Nikos Kazantzakis was one of the most important and talented Greek writers and philosophers of the 20th Century.
		Nikos Kazantzakis was born on February 18th, 1883 in the town of Heraklion in Crete.
		Nikos left Crete as a young man to attend the Franciscan School of the Holy Cross in Naxos and in 1902 started to study law at the University of Athens for four years.
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	Nikos Kazantzakis Summary
		Nikos Kazantzakis (Greek Νίκος Καζαντζάκης February 18, 1883, Heraklion, Crete, Greece - October 26, 1957, Freiburg, Germany) was a Greek novelist, poet, playwright and thinker.
		Kazantzakis was born in Heraklion, Crete, in 1883, at that time a small town still under Turkish rule, but under intense revolutionary fever, following the continuous uprisings of the Greek population to achieve independence from the Ottoman empire and to unite with Greece.
		Epitaph on the tomb of Nikos Kazantzakis in Heraklion:
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	Nikos Kazantzakis
		Kazantzakis, Greek novelist, poet, playwriter and thinker, born February 18, 1883, Heraklion, Crete, died October 26, 1957, Freiburg, Germany.
		Kazantzakis was born in Heraklion in 1883, at that time a small town still under Turkish rule, but under intense revolutionary fever, following the continuous uprisings of the Greek population to achieve independence from the Ottoman empire and to unite with Greece.
		Kazantzakis himself considered the "The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel" 1924-1938 to be his most important work.
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	Nikos Kazantzakis
		Nikos Kazantzakis was born in Megalokastro, Ottoman Empire, now Iráklion, Crete, as the son of Michael Kazantzakis, a farmer and dealer of in animal feed, and his wife, the former Maria Christodoulzki.
		Kazantzakis was raised among peasants and although Kazantzakis left Crete as a young man, he returned to his homeland constantly in his writings.
		Kazantzakis presented Christ as an existential hero, a rebel against his divine mission until he is awakened by Judas, whom he calls his brother.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /kazantza.htm (1392 words)

	GREECE: Nikos Kazantzakis
		Kazantzakis died in 1957 in Germany and is buried on one of the bastions of the Venetian fort surrounding Iraklion, on the island of Crete.
		Kazantzakis is indeed the best modern Greek philosopher/literary figure who was profoundly influenced by the existentialist philosophical and literary trends in the interwar era when T.S. Elliot, Hollow Men and Oswald Sprengler, The Decline of the West were making an impact.
		Kazantzakis' works became popular amid the cultural revolution in the western world of the late 1960s and early 1970s, when young educated middle class people were questioning the political status quo, western bourgeois values, and even the very foundations of western civilization like Christianity.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/Greece/greece_nikos.htm (955 words)

	Nikos Kazantzakis Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		The Greek author, journalist, and statesman Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957) is considered the foremost figure in modern Greek literature.
		Nikos Kazantzakis was born on Feb. 18, 1883, in the town of Herákleion, Crete, where he received his elementary and secondary education.
		Kazantzakis claimed that he owed his happiness to Helen and that without her he would have died many years sooner.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/nikos-kazantzakis (1144 words)

	Nikos Kazantzakis - Encyclopedia.com
		Nikos Kazantzakis, Nietzsche, and the myth of the hero.
		A conference today on Nikos Kazantzakis is part of a series of events...
		she is likely to be remembered mostly for Nikos Kazantzakis: enas traghikos ("Nikos Kazantzakis: a tragic figure"), a destructive critique...
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	Nikos Kazantzakis
		The Greek novelist, poet, and thinker Nikos Kazantzakis, b.
		In it Kazantzakis embodies Bergsonian ideas of the elan vital in the exuberant figure of Zorba.
		Bibliography: Bien, Peter, Nikos Kazantzakis (1962), Nikos Kazantzakis and the Linguistic Revolution in Modern Greek Literature (1972), and The Politics of Salvation (1990); Kazantzakis, Helen, Nikos Kazantzakis, trans.
	www.levity.com /corduroy/kazantza.htm (460 words)

	The Everyman of Nikos Kazantzakis
		The Odysseus of Kazantzakis was also caught between two contending worlds, as Pandelis Prevelakis notes: between the Bronze Age and the Iron, with all the attendant uncertainties and existential choices facing the hero in pursuit of his divine purpose.11 Odysseus is the quintessential hero.
		Kazantzakis, of course, did not arrive at his spiritually transposed matter within the given self-generating premises of the Marxian dialectic, which can say that mind (or spirit or soul, if one wishes) constitutes the highest form of matter.
		Kazantzakis describes how “the swollen skin had cracked, a yellowish thick matter was oozing out and coagulating in his mustache and bear.
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	Famous Cretans - Eleftherios Venizelos, Mikis Theodorakis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Domenico Theotokopoulos, Michalis ...
		Nikos Kazantzakis was born in Heraklion and he was one of the most important Greek writers, poets and philosophers of the 20th century.
		Nikos Kazantzakis graduated from the Athens Law School and continued his studies in Paris (1907-1909).
		A complete picture of Nikos Kazantzakis life and work can also be acquired by a visit to the Nikos Kazantzakis Museum at the village Myrtia, next to his father’s house.
	www.thehotel.gr /famous-cretans (1076 words)

	NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS
		Kazantzakis was raised among peasants and although Kazantzakis left Crete as a young man, he returned to his homeland constantly in his art.
		Kazantzakis spent many years in public service and in 1919 he was appointed director general at the Greek Ministry of Public Welfare.
		Body of Nikos was buried on one of the bastions of the Venetian fort surrounding Iraklion, Martinego.
	grecja.home.pl /eng/ekazantzakis.htm (906 words)

	Nikos Kazantzakis - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Kazantzakis, Nikos (1885-1957), Greek author and translator, whose best-known work in English is the novel Zorba the Greek.
		Nikos Kazantzakis (1883 - 1957) One of the most important Greek writers, poets and philosophers of the...
		Nikos Kazantzakis Museum Myrtia, Iraklion, Crete The Nikos Kazantzakis Museum is dedicated to the...
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	Nikos Kazantzakis
		Kazantzakis was born in Iraklion, Crete, in 1883.
		Kazantzakis believed that his was a transitional age in which one civilisation was collapsing and another raw, untamed civilisation was emerging.
		Kazantzakis predominately used the novel genre to formulate his philosophical world-view, whilst at the same time challenging elements of a religious, Christian tradition in which he was immersed but which, he felt, no longer spoke to humanity's existential concerns.
	www.philosophers.co.uk /cafe/phil_jan2003.htm (798 words)

	TO LIFE! TO LIFE! THE PASSION WITHIN US: A TRIBUTE TO THE LIFE AND WORK OF NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS
		Indeed, Nikos Kazantzakis was a modern-day crusader on a pilgrimage toward understanding those weighty issues of life’s meaning and purpose.
		It is to Kazantzakis’ credit that he stayed the course of the battle, realizing that he would never reconcile such substantial differences, but that he could at least try to understand these competing forces.
		Nikos’ God was not a predetermined goal toward which a person proceeds, but spirituality ceaselessly and progressively created by nature as it evolves toward greater and higher refinement.
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	Famous Cretans
		Nikos Kazantzakis was born in year of 1883 in the city of Iraklion.
		Kazantzakis, much more of a philosopher than a writer, was deeply influenced by the writings of Nietzsche and Bergson, and the philosophies of Christianity, Marxism and Buddhism.
		A complete picture of Nikos Kazantzakis life and work can also be acquired by a visit to the Nikos Kazantzakis Museum in Myrtia.
	www.creteonthe.net /famouscretans.htm (1112 words)

	Ascent: A Profile of Nikos Kazantzakis
		As it opens, Geranos (Kazantzakis) is in a monastery; alerted to the fact that he is a seeker, we are not surprised when he leaves for Moscow to attend an Oriental Congress, one of the propaganda spectaculars that the Soviets regularly organized for foreign intellectuals in search of a substitute religion.
		Kazantzakis' attempt in The Last Temptation to fashion a new Jesus was as unconvincing as it was offensive, so bound up was it with a spiritualized and murky metaphysics.
		Kazantzakis was here talking to himself, but it is unlikely that he ever seriously considered sacrificing his writing on a pagan altar.
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	The religion of Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer
		Nikos Kazantzakis was excommunicated from the Greek Orthodox Church.
		Kazantzakis, a nonbeliever, had created controversy in Greece by limning an untraditional story of the Messiah in demotic Greek.
		Kazantzakis, Bien observes, felt that this world would "somehow, through its own dematerialization, produce its own materialistic renewal in another cycle"; in his sotry of the Messiah, Bien argues, Kazantzakis attempted to assist our inevitable evolutionary transformation.
	www.adherents.com /people/pk/Nikos_Kazantzakis.html (242 words)

	NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS
		Un français doit faire un effort pour imaginer l'importance de Nikos Kazantzakis dans la littérature grecque d'une part mais, aussi dans la littérature européenne.
		Kazantzakis, pour sa part, conserva à Gorki son admiration.
		Nikos Kazantzakis est né en 1883 à Candie en Crète.
	andre.bourgeois.9online.fr /kazantzakis_nikos.htm (417 words)

	Amazon.com: Report to Greco: Books: Nikos Kazantzakis (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kazantzakis was a child of Crete, and it was to Crete that he always returned for rejuvenation.
		Kazantzakis was a prolific writer with incredible insight and wisdom and some of his best known works are: "The Last Temptation of Christ" and "Zorba the Greek".
		Kazantzakis is a literary giant, Albert Camus was one of his friends and admirers, and the book is not for the casual reader.
	www.amazon.com /Report-Greco-Nikos-Kazantzakis/dp/0671220276 (2212 words)

	Who is Nikos Kazantzakis?
		Nikos Kazantzakis was a playwright and novelist born on Crete in 1885.
		The struggle of Christ is the struggle of Kazantzakis, who drew much inspiration from the existentialist philosopher Nietzsche, and from Buddhist philosophy.
		Kazantzakis wife writes in her biography of her husband that he always traveled with a copy of Dante’s Divine Comedy, and that it was at his bedside when he died in 1957.
	www.wisegeek.com /who-is-nikos-kazantzakis.htm (676 words)

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		This then, is a novel exploring the travel through life of the two sides of Nikos Kazantzakis, the simple Greek that grew up on Crete and Naxos and the educated Greek who travelled, studied Buddhism and met other intellectuals.
		We learn what has shaped this man in his childhood and youth (Kazantzakis would have said 'shaped and molded the clay that is man') from his earliest influences of "The Lives Of The Saints" through war and the hatred of Turks to the Catholic school on Naxos, their island retreat.
		We learn that, for instance, Nikos had a love of cherries, a love that he gave to Zorba in 'Zorba the Greek' for Zorba to eat until he was sick, never to want a cheerry again.
	members.lycos.co.uk /realbookreview2/kazantza.html (945 words)

	NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS, Crete Holidays - Hotels - Apartments - Villas
		Nikos Kazantzakis was born on 18 February1883 in Varvari, the present village of Mirtia, and was one of the most important Greek writers of the 20th century.
		Kazantzakis was deeply impressed by the work of Nietzsche and Bergson as well as by the philosophy of Christianity, Marxism und Buddhism.
		A more complete portrayal of the life and works of Nikos Kazantzakis can be seen in the Nikos Kazantzakis Museum in Mirtia.
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	Greek Books: Literature
		The Last Temptation was Nikos Kazantzakis fiery masterpiece that nearly got him excommunicated from the Greek Orthodox Church.
		Kazantzakis, it is said, asked God to grant him ten additional years to finish this book.
		Who knew Kazantzakis better than his wife Helen, who weaves into her text hundreds of his letters from schooldays to his deathbed.
	www.greektravel.com /books/literature/index.htm (3142 words)

	AllRefer.com - Nikos Kazantzakis (Miscellaneous European Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Nikos Kazantzakis[nE´kOs kA´´zAndzA´kEs] Pronunciation Key, 1883?–1957, Greek writer, b.
		After obtaining a law degree he studied philosophy under Henri Bergson in Paris and traveled widely in Europe and Asia.
		As the Greek minister of public welfare (1919–27) and minister of state (1945–46) he vainly tried to reconcile the factions of left and right.
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	Daily Celebrations ~ Nikos Kazantzakis, This Minute ~ December 2 ~ Ideas to motivate, educate, and inspire
		Born in Crete, Nikos Kazantzakis (1883—1957) was considered one of the most important Greek writers and philosophers of the 20th century.
		The book, which includes a dream-like scene of an angel leading Christ from the cross, was banned by the Church in 1954.
		Kazantzakis was excommunicated from the Greek Orthodox Church.
	www.dailycelebrations.com /120202.htm (217 words)

	Nikos Kazantzakis
		And this is true of Nikos Kazantzakis himself in a sense.
		Kazantzakis journeyed or lived, Crete remained burning alive in his heart and mind
		It becomes clear the Crete was for Kazantzakis his chief nurturer and inspiration.
	www.myrtos.org /kazantzakis.html (482 words)

	Kazantzakis Nikos
		Grâce à sa force de travail prodigieuse, Nikos Kazantzakis put accomplir, pendant les cinquante ans de sa vie littéraire, une œuvre immense: poèmes, tragédies, récits de voyages, essais philosophiques, romans, traductions.
		Kazantzakis ne faisait qu'écouter son cœur, son milieu et son temps.
		Kazantzakis n'adorait que la grandeur, les vastes horizons de l'histoire, les sommets des montagnes, les individus à pas de géant.
	www.alpha-omegaonline.com /Kazanzakis.html (1195 words)

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