ZORBA THE GREEK (9/14) - Mikis Theodorakis, Nikos Kazantzakis

ZORBA THE GREEK

Zorba the Greek is a novel written by the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis, first published in 1946.
It 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.
The novel was adapted into a successful 1964 film of the same name as well as a 1968 musical, Zorba.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorba_the_Greek
Nikos Kazantzakis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikos_Kazantzakis
http://grecja.home.pl/eng/ekazantzakis.htm
http://www.historical-museum.gr/kazantzakis/index1.html

The meaning of the words, art, love, beauty, purity, passion, all this was made clear to me by the simplest of human words uttered by this workman.

We must both have been hungry because we constantly led the conversation round to food.
"What is your favorite dish, grandad?"
"All of them, my son. It's a great sin to say this is good and that is bad."
"Why? Can't we make a choice?"
"No, of course we can't."
"Why not?"
"Because there are people who are hungry."
I was silent, ashamed. My heart had never been able to reach that height of nobility and compassion.

The aim of man and matter is to create joy, according to Zorba others would say to create spirit, but that comes to the same thing on another plane.
But why? With what object?
And when the body dissolves, does anything at all remain of what we have called the soul?
Or does nothing remain, and does our unquenchable desire for immortality spring, not from the fact that we are immortal, but from the fact that during the short span of our life we are in the service of something immortal?"

"... the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

How simple a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple heart.

George Zorbas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Zorbas

Zorba the Greek (film):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorba_the_Greek_(film)
Cast:
Anthony Quinn as Alexis Zorba
Alan Bates as Basil
Irene Papas as Widow
Lila Kedrova as Madame Hortense
Sotiris Moustakas as Mimithos
Anna Kyriakou as Soul
Eleni Anousaki as Lola
Yorgo Voyagis as Pavlo (as George Voyadjis)
Takis Emmanuel as Manolakas
Giorgos Foundas as Mavrandoni (as George Foundas)
Pia Lindström as Peasant Girl (scenes deleted)
George P. Cosmatos as Acne Faced Boy

Mikis Theodorakis:
http://www.mikis-theodorakis.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikis_Theodorakis
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheodorakisFriends
http://www.youtube.com/group/FriendsOfMikis

ZORBA THE GREEK (Original Soundtrack)
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=04E32968CE6A55B2

Zorbas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorbas

ZORBA THE GREEK (Original Soundtrack)
http://www.music-bazaar.com/main.php?page=album&id=6526
http://www.amazon.com/Zorba-Greek-Mikis-Theodorakis/dp/B000027QF8
http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1941384/a/Zorba+The+Greek%2FO.S...


Margarita Theodorakis 15 June at 14:11 -
"There is no problem, I give you the permisiion.
I am the publisher of Mikis Theodorakis' work and the author of Romanos publishing.
I hope that covers you."

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