Saturday 25 May 2013

The Real Zorba the Greek


"Zorba taught me to love life and have no fear of death", Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco, translated by Peter A.Bien, 1965.

"In 1917, there was Zorba- Zorba and the famous lignite mine, whose actual location was not in Crete at all but the southern part of the Peloponnesus, in Mani, near a stunning bay with fine sand and fresh-water springs spurting in the sea and along a beach...When the mine collapsed, Zorba and Kazantzakis abandoned it".
Nikos Kazantzakis, A Biography Based on His Letters, by Helen Kazantzakis, translated by Amy Mims, 1968.

The mine was at Prastova, four miles from Kardamyli.

"As for us, boss...we have other aims, great ones".

"What are they Zorba?" I asked him.

"It seems we're digging to see what devils we have inside us".

Kazantzakis, Report to Greco.



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