Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis book review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 มิ.ย. 2014
- This amazing Greek book really impressed me! It was violent, romantic, idealistic and pragmatic at the same time, I highly recommend it!
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I am greek and I have read this book in greek and it has changed my life. I am almost in tears to see someone who is not from Greece has read it and loved it! Thank you so much for the review , it meant so much watching this you have no idea!
Thank you so much for the feedback!!! I loved this book and have been thinking about it for the past weeks, this book has helped me to go out and join a salsa club, join a French club and in general, to live a full and beautiful life, the message is priceless, I'm very happy I read it!
I was given the book as a present by a Greek (Cretan) colleague of mine. Finished it literally just an hour ago and I have to admit that I somewhat struggled with finishing the book. Mostly because I noticed on multiple occasions that I would read a whole passage and then wonder what I had just read, prompting me to read it again until I understood what was said. Having said that though, I am absolutely in love with this book and just ordered two other books by Nikos Kazantsakis (Freedom and Death and The Last Temptation of Christ). My Greek colleague gave me the book because she believed this book suited my personality (I guess I am in many ways a sort of a pen-pusher like the main character haha) and in the future, hopefully, I could be more of a Alexis Zorba/Zorbescu/Zorbic. Guess the only thing I need now is a widow :)
Kazantzakis is one of the gretaest minds existed on earth.He is one of the greatest writers and a great philosopher.Greetings from Turkey.(His books are well known and popular among readers in Turkey)
Παρα πολυ καλη η αναλυση που εκανες σε ολα τα επιπεδα ,πολιτισμικα ,κοινωνικα ,μορφωτικα.
It is very popular in educated types in the U.S. Read the book 4 times seen movie maybe 5 times.
I am an Armenian and I love this book and the author so much. It's very interesting to read. It teaches us very deep things in a simple and practic way.
I am a Tamil and once read an english version of this book and feel reading it one time is not enough and want to read many more times before writing down anything about this magnificent book here. Do Not intend to read but study this masterpiece.
I love that you are so honest and insightful with your reviews. I have never thought about reading this book but I will now.
Thank you so much for the feedback! I hope you have the chance to read this book, its wonderful!
Thank you. First read this when I was 17. Can't say that it changed my life (didn't have a lot going on back then) - but this book sure has influenced my life since then. I am Boss, totally and completely. And I WANT to be Zorba.
Hey I enjoyed your review :) I am South Korean and this book is so popular in my country! Many people love and admire Zorba (except for some hard-line feminists…) I admit that he is the one who truly know how to enjoy and every moment of life which is only once for us!
Even hardline feminist can appreciate the time that it was written in for Zorba's character. Don't forget he stuck up for the widow!
Great job, Malinka! It makes me SO happy to see someone else out there who has as much passion for the book as I do. It's a beautiful story of being alive: good, bad, happy, sad, beautiful, ugly. It's ALL part of life. I often think of the Joseph Campbell quote, "People often say that what we're looking for is the meaning of life. I don't think that's what we're looking for. I think that what we're looking for is an experience of being ALIVE." That is what this book is about! Thanks again and just keep being you. Intellectual or adventurer or whatever. Just be YOU!
+bartcolen Thank you so much for the advice and for the wonderful quote! This book was amazing as you describe and it helped me to accept that life comes with bad and good, I really had trouble with this and was always looking for the good and bright... I try to be myself and I encourage you to do the same!
I'm from Greece and i am very happy to know that there are people from other countries which read to Nikos Kazantzakis. I actually love him
Οδυσσέας Πεγαμηνόπουλος Thank you for the feedback! I love Kazantzakis and I really hope to read Christ recrucified this year
That's great! I hope I'll hear your opinion about it in the future. :D
Mine too! Kazantzakis has really captured the Balkan and Byzantine spirit in his works...
The review is simple, great and straight forward when I heard other reviews from other readers in TH-cam.
A great review of a great novel ! ... Thank you, Malinka.
I saw this movie in defunct Plaza, Secunderabad, India way back in 1966-68. Anthony Quin was my favourite actor. I loved the dance movements of Siratki and attracted by music from Mandolin. The dance and music lingered in memory for a long time.
cool review! lovely accent! never heard of Zorba the Greek until OSHO. Zorba was an important character to OSHO as he described him [Zorba] as half of the "new man". The other half being Buddha. The restaurant at OSHO International is called Zorba the Buddha!
Interesting!
I just finished reading it and I have to say it is really good! I also find myself to be the reader instead of the practical man like Zorba. Maybe I need to feel more rather than to know more. I guess we all in constant struggle to find balance between our civilized life and our true primitive state. Anyway, great review!
I am from New Zealand. Your review is really good. I have not read the book but I have seen the movie and I am a huge Greekophile and a big Anthony Quinn fan, so I have ordered the book and can not wait to read it. Thank you! Incidentally I really think Anthony Quinn acted himself here (to a degree, because I believe AQ was a well read, culture, empathetic man ... naughty like Zorba, but a good man who knew how to live) so I hope you hope you read about QA too (he wrote two biographies) and live more like Zorba than the "reader". I learnt to live after going to Greece. Thank you again for your wonderful review! Live life!
What are you other top books and media to look into for Greekophile stuff?
I liked the movie and just read the book for the second time. I think one has to love Greece on a deeper level to go along with Zorba the Movie and Zorba the book. ‘Kazantzakis is Greeces last Philosopher’ a Greek recently explained to me. I enjoyed your review, even after 6 years :)
Nailed it Joe!
I like the Sirtaki of the song Zorba The Greek
Thank you. Most helpful review
A key book to understand kazantzakis philosophical thinking is “the saviors of god”. So highly recommended to read that to have the background for all the others written works of his. Regarding zorba, i believe kazantzakis continues to look for answers in his philosophical questions. Dont forget that kazantzakis is the guy who translated in modern greek the Homer, almost all ancient philosophers and all the key philosophers of 17th and 18th century. He was very very spiritual man and the key believing in his works is how manhood concrete the matter and make it pneuma. Zorbas is the matter, the master (kazantzakis) is the mind. It is the mega philosophical question of dualism. body and soul. Kazantzkakis (the mind - master) is paying a tribute to the body(zorbas). The body should be free to be able to create something above the matter, something that can stay immortal in the ancient greek concept of psyche.
“ I hope for nothing, I fear nothing, I am free”
Maybe we have to find a balance between being a voyeur and being a person who lives in the moment. I know I have the problem of being a voyeur. This book sounds so interesting!
Yes, I always hear about the 'golden middle line' and find a balance but I'm not sure that this is completely possible, I mean, if you read you read and when you travel, you travel cause if you start to read, you don't see the things around you but imagine the world of the book... Anyways, the book is so much more than about travelings and I liked it, if you find it I hope you give it a try!
Fantastic
Malinka! Thank You for this video. (My father's parents are from where you're from also.)
I've hated the movie so much that I always turned the channel when it came on the TV. Then i was trapped in a snow storm and i had nothing else to watch.❤ It affected me so much that I am trying to write my own version........ I really need to read the book.
Thank you. I was watching the movie on TV because it had 5 stars and walked into something I was not expecting. You telling me that the violent scenery did not match the level in the book prevents me from reading it, sorry. But nevertheless, your review helped me to conceive this better.
Great book good review thanks
I’m cool with controverdial stuff. Thanks for the review.
Here we go in 2021 and I'm here... 😂 I'm interesting on reading the book... Think next time if I write a comment I ll read it...
It's a wonderful book I love it
I am AJu I am from Kerala in india I like this 📖
Malinka citeste Raport catre El Greco...un alt mare grec ajuns in Occident asemeni lui Kazantzakis!
the everest of zen brought me here
Congrats for being so wise, and beautiful, honeypie !!!...
I feel to meet you dear Do you visit India???
You are conflating the novel with the film. In the film the narrator is British. In the book he is Greek.
Παρα πολυ καλη και σωστη η αναλυση που εκανες
Δεν θα συμφωνουσα με τον ορο " misogynist" του οποιου δινεις μαλον ο συγραφεας αναφερετε σε woman stereotypes της εποχης που το εργο εγράφη
My mothers mothers sister’s husband so my grandmother’s sister’s husband
It takes real talent to make such a sublime piece of metaphysical genius seem so incredibly boring...