Kazantakis Nikos (3 results)

Trade Paperback. Fourth Printing. Tight sound copy in Very Good minus condition with some slight soiling or brown-spotting and edge wear and possibly some creasing. Copy Two.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First U.k. Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp.284. Translated from the original Greek language edition: "Written at the beginning of the Second World War, 'England' is perhaps the most moving of all Kazantakis's travel books." No inscriptions, not price-clipped. Front of dust jacket shows a line drawing in red of Big Ben. Found online:England is an extraordinarily perceptive account of Kazantzakis' confrontation with a country he admired, feared and marveled at. What he sought was a people the opposite of himself pragmatic where he was spiritual, withdrawn where he was exuberant, disciplined and fond of hierarchy where he was unrestrained and anarchic. At the same he set out to solve the riddle of how a people which seemed to him, at first meeting, so cold and unemotional could produce a Shakespeare Written just at the outbreak of the Second World War, England is perhaps the most moving all Kazantzakis' travel books. In Spain, Journey to the Morea and JapanChina, he was seeking something he already knew, a reflection of himself in different landscapes. In England, he is examining something which he feels to be foreign, a society which fascinates him in its rigid class structure and sense of history, but which also repels him in its lack of spontaneity and its fear of emotion Precisely because he found England so provoking, precisely because it was so difficult for him to reconcile the genius of Shakespeare and the sweeping power of a vast empire with the smallness and the calm of a settled island society, Kazantzakis wrote, in this book, some of his best travel notes the inspired, brilliant and always deeply felt observations of a great writer and a gifted voyager." Fine in very good indeed dust jacket. Dust jacket slightly creased and slightly rubbed at edges with no loss. …

First American edition of the witty novel that served as inspiration for the 1964 film of the same name. Octavo, original half cloth. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Dick Dodge. A sharp example. 'Zorba the Greek' is the tale of a young Greek intellectual who ventures to escape his bookish life with the aid of the boisterous and mysterious Alexis Zorba. "Mr. Kazantzakis has breathed into his prose all the warm airs of the Mediterranean, its light, its color, its sadness. But, more surprising, he has created in Zorba one of the greatest characters of modern fiction. The novel reflects Greek exhilaration at its best. Zorba, pure in feeling, makes havoc of monks, scholarship and the life of withdrawal" (London Times Literary Supplement). The novel was adapted into the successful 1964 film of the same name, directed by Michael Cacoyannis and starring Anthony Quinn as Zorba, which won awards for Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Direction, and Best Cinematography at the Academy Awards and Best Actor with the National Board of Review.…