Nikos Kazantzakis Books In Order

Novels

  1. Zorba the Greek (1946)
  2. God’s Pauper (1950)
  3. Freedom and Death (1954)
  4. Christ Recrucified (1960)
  5. The Last Temptation (1960)
  6. The Last Temptation of Christ (1960)
  7. The Saviors of God (1960)
  8. The Rock Garden (1963)
  9. The Fratricides (1964)
  10. Report to Greco (1965)
  11. Alexander the Great (1982)
  12. At the Palaces of Knossos (1988)

Novellas

  1. Serpent and Lily (1980)

Non fiction

  1. Japan / China (1963)
  2. Spain (1963)
  3. Journeying (1984)
  4. Russia (1989)
  5. The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis (2011)

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Nikos Kazantzakis Books Overview

Zorba the Greek

An Englishman discovers that he has come into a small inheritance in Crete and sets out to claim it. When he arrives, he meets Alexis Zorba, a middle aged Greek with a zest for life. As their relationship develops, the Englishman is persuaded to change his outlook on life

God’s Pauper

The Francis of Assisi in these pages is a man of struggle and suffering, a man God possessed. Saturday Review The writing…
is direct and vigorous. Commonweal The novel is strong, deep, and moving…
. a penetration into the mystery and wonder of life. San Francisco ChronicleThe protean Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis retells the story of the most beloved of saints Francis of Assisi, who permanently changed the way people think about following God. Drawing on the traditional stories of the saint’s life, Kazantzakis infuses the tale with a fervent vision that is uniquely his own, highlighting the saint s heroic single mindedness in the face of extreme physical and spiritual suffering. He portrays the saint as a great lover and inspiring leader who embraced radical poverty in the face of many obstacles and temptations while achieving a way of life marked by epic generosity.

Freedom and Death

This is Kazantzakis’s modern ‘Iliad’. Set in late 19th century Crete, when a new uprising takes place to rival those of 1854, 1866 and 1878. In the village of Megalokastro, a Cretan resistance fighter named Captain Michales, is matched by the Turkish bey, his blood brother.

Christ Recrucified

The elders of Lycovrissi gather to select principles for the Passion Play. Among the villagers, Manolios is chosen to play Christ and Katerina is to play Mary. As this passionate story evolves they begin to change. Then there is a murder, and Manolios believes he must offer himself as sacrifice.

The Last Temptation

Kazantzakis’s classic novel, blacklisted by the Vatican, filmed by Scorsese, has been labelled heretical, blasphemous and a masterpiece. His Christ is an epic conception, wholly original.

The Last Temptation of Christ

Now a major motion picture, The Last Temptation of Christ is a monumental fictional reinterpretation of the Gospels by one of the giants of modern literature.

The Saviors of God

The Saviors of God is the spiritual testament of Nikos Kazantzakis, author of The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, Zorba the Greek, The Last Temptation of Christ, and Report to Greco. Containing the core of his philosophy, it is, in the legacy of his work, the equivalent of Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra. The Saviors of God provides a key to all of Kazantzakis’ work even as it stands on its own as a passionate and systematic view of the relationship between Man and God.

The Fratricides

Against the background of the Greek civil war of the late 1940s, Captain Drakos, son of the local priest Father Yanaros, has taken to the mountains with a group of villagers and joined the Communist rebels. It is Holy Week and Father Yanaros feels that he himself is bearing the sins of the world.

Report to Greco

This autobiographical novel is one of the last things written by Kazantzakis before he died in 1957. It paints a vivid picture of his childhood in Crete, and then steadily grows into a spiritual quest that takes him to Italy, Jerusalem, Paris, Vienna, Berlin and Russia.

At the Palaces of Knossos

With the help of the princess Ariadne and other friends in the palace at Crete, Theseus enters the Labyrinth and slays the hideous Minotaur, thus spearheading the resistance of the Athenian people against King Minos.

Japan / China

In Japan/China Kazantzakis writes with passion and understanding of his experiences in Hong Kong, Kobe, Tokyo, Kyoto, Peking and Shanghai. The poverty and misery of China in the thirties; the menace of Japan, arming for war, the color, music, architecture, theater and literature of these two great nations all come vividly to life through Kazantzakis’ words.

The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis

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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