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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Well written and deserves more attention than it gets. A true philosophist.
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