If You Like Zorba the Greek What Should You Read Next
Initial Impressions of Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
Zorba the Greek 
Non very long agone, I gave myself permission to exist able to not like a book, even if information technology is on a listing of the greatest books of all time. I struggled while I read Zorba the Greek
First published in 1946, Zorba the Greek past Nikos Kazantzakis is autobiographical, and the grapheme Zorba, is George Zorba, the author'south close friend. The book is a tribute to George Zorba. In the novel, the narrator, is referred to as "boss."
UPDATE: First Published Here in January 2014
What is Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis Most?
When the story starts, the boss, who is 35 years sometime, is going through an identity crunch. He is very well-read, but he hasn't allowed himself to go through a lot of meaningful and worthwhile life experiences, it'south nearly equally if he is living vicariously through books, so he has decided to put away his books for a while.
The boss is also upset considering when a close friend, Stavridakis was leaving, his parting words were, "Au revoir bookworm," which angered him. Stavridakis was on his way to Caucasus to help to liberate some people of Greek descent. It doesn't appear that the boss has ever been involved with a crusade.
While waiting out a terrible storm in a café in Piraeus, to board a boat that's going to Crete, a sixty-v year old man approaches him looking for piece of work. The human being, Alexis Zorba has worked in a mine, equally a cook amid other things. The dominate hires Zorba to be his melt and to work in his lignite mine in Crete.
When they make it in Crete, they rent a identify from Dame Hortense, and it turns out it'southward but a hut, which the ii have to share. Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis contrasts, the boss, who is academic, with Zorba, who is unschooled and uncouth. The volume is about the friendship of these two men who accept contrasting personalities.
The book is very philosophical and Zorba asks the tough questions such as why practise people die, where practice they come from, and is there a God, all questions that nosotros have asked at some point during our lives. And the reader can run into the split between homo's physical and intellectual natures equally shown in the two contrasting personalities. Additionally, Zorba constantly challenges his employer'southward belief system, and his outlook on life.
The boss needs to get a life. I shook my caput when I read the boss saying that he has, "fallen so low that, if I had to cull betwixt falling in dear with a woman and reading a book well-nigh honey, I should have chosen the book." This argument speaks book for the reader about who the dominate is at his core. By the end of the volume, the dominate has a deep reverence for Zorba, which I call back is misplaced.
In Zorba the Greek, the character, Zorba relates an incident where he beats up a former employer for no real reason. He cuts off a part of his index finger on his left hand considering he believed it was getting in the way while making pottery. Zorba has these intense lows and highs and as a reader I think he is manic depressive – he is mentally challenged. All through the story, Zorba does bad things and the boss allows him to get abroad with information technology. Zorba heads to Candia to secure some cable for a railway to send timber from the top of a loma. He doesn't render until 12 days later because he is with a woman and spends all of the boss' money, even though he promised to return right away.
To call up the boss' money, Zorba essentially blackmail's the abbot and the monks at the monastery who they want to charter the land from, and he is e'er able to justify his action. The boss is passive, telling Zorba to practise whatsoever he wants, but he doesn't want any part of it. Unfortunately, you lot are responsible for your employees while they are on the job. He also places as well much organized religion in Zorba'south abilities, taking his word for granted that he has certain skills and abilities.
When the railway experiment blows up and the dominate decides to leave Crete because he has lost everything, Zorba is upset and believes that the boss hasn't really learned the important life lessons. They commutation a few letters over the next few years, and in 1 of the concluding messages from Zorba, he invites the boss to visit him a corking altitude away to see a green stone. Boss declines the invitation which angers Zorba who then decides non to write to the boss again. On his deathbed, Zorba dictates a letter to the boss.
Would I Recommend Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis?
I read in a literary criticism that Zorba the Greek is "Nikos Kazantzakis' self-portrait equally an artist and philosopher." That may or may not be so, but I still cannot figure out why Zorba the Greek past Nikos Kazantzakis is on a list of the greatest books of all time. I take read and reviewed books such as Lady Chatterley'due south Lover (My review of Lady Chatterley's Lover ) where the language is "racy" for the fourth dimension, but I institute quite a bit of Zorba the Greek to be downright rough. And information technology may very well exist that I am ticked off because of the way that the characters talk virtually women. Only y'all may desire to read the book for yourself if you do not have the bias that I take.
Zorba the Greek Lady Chatterley's Lover (Bantam Classics)
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Books past Nikos Kazantzakis
The Last Temptation of Christ 
Saint Francis 
God's Pauper: A Novel 
Christ Recrucified: A Novel 
The Odyssey 
Report to Greco 
The Saviors of God: Spiritual Exercises 
The Odyssey, A Mod Sequel 
Freedom and Death 
SAINT FRANCIS 
Alexander The Great: A Novel 
Study to Greco 
Liberty or Decease (A Touchstone Book) 
Japan/China: A Journal of Two Voyages to the Far E
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