Kazantzakis was born a peasant on a small farm in Crete, but when a civil conflict broke out on Crete in 1897 he was sent to school on the island of Naxos--a small Franciscan school where he became interested in the quest for spiritual development that would occupy him all his life. He graduated from the University of Athens, then studied philosophy with Henri Bergson in Paris, following which he spent six months in a Macedonian monastery. In 1922 he moved to Vienna and then to Germany. Among ot more...
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02/18/1883 Crete, Greece, Balkan Peninsula, Eastern Europe,
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Excellent so far!! I'm enjoying it; it's very entertaining, and from what I can tell, will be a powerful message about the power-hungry nature of man in positions of authority.