The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis

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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

Peter Bien, professor emeritus of English and comparative literature at Dartmouth College, has translated Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation of Christ, Saint Francis, and Report to Greco. He is also the author of an authoritative two-volume study of Kazantzakis's works.

"[T]he best possible place to start to try to understand a remarkable writer."---Mark Mazower, Times Literary Supplement "In a very real sense, the present volume is the raw material of the biography, turned into an enjoyable repast by the skillful hand of its editor."---David Holton, Anglo-Hellenic Review