Zorba the Greek

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Sinopsis

Condición del ejemplar: Acceptable. A young, bookish intellectual sets out for the island of Crete, where he plans to reopen an old lignite mine and escape his life of books and abstract thought. While waiting for a boat in the port of Piraeus, he meets Alexis Zorba, a larger-than-life Macedonian laborer of no fixed abode, who talks his way into a job as foreman. Zorba is everything the narrator is not. He is earthy, impulsive and fearless, a man who dances when words fail him, who has loved many women, worked at countless trades and seized every pleasure and sorrow life has offered. As the two men work, eat, drink and argue through the seasons in a Cretan village, the narrator begins to learn from his extraordinary companion a new way of seeing the world, one rooted in passion, freedom and the acceptance of fate. Filled with humor, tragedy and the vivid landscapes and customs of rural Crete, Nikos Kazantzakis’s most famous novel is a celebration of the joy of living, and a profound meditation on the tension between the mind and the senses. Made into the award-winning film starring Anthony Quinn, Zorba the Greek remains one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.