{"product_id":"the-selected-letters-of-nikos-kazantzakis-9780691203171","title":"The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe life of Nikos Kazantzakis-the author of \u003ci\u003eZorba the Greek\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Temptation of Christ\u003c\/i\u003e-was as colorful and eventful as his fiction. And nowhere is his life revealed more fully or surprisingly than in his letters. Edited and translated by Kazantzakis scholar Peter Bien, this is the most comprehensive selection of Kazantzakis's letters in any language. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of the most important Greek writers of the twentieth century, Kazantzakis (1883-1957) participated in or witnessed some of the most extraordinary events of his times, including both world wars and the Spanish and Greek civil wars. As a foreign correspondent, an official in several Greek governments, and a political and artistic exile, he led a relentlessly nomadic existence, living in France, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Soviet Union, and England. He visited the Versailles Peace Conference, attended the tenth-anniversary celebration of the Bolshevik Revolution, interviewed Mussolini and Franco, and briefly served as a Greek cabinet minister-all the while producing a stream of novels, poems, plays, travel writing, autobiography, and translations. The letters collected here touch on almost every aspect of Kazantzakis's rich and tumultuous life, and show the genius of a man who was deeply attuned to the artistic, intellectual, and political events of his times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Bien\u003c\/b\u003e, professor emeritus of English and comparative literature at Dartmouth College, has translated Kazantzakis's \u003ci\u003eThe Last Temptation of Christ, Saint Francis\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eReport to Greco\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the author of an authoritative two-volume study of Kazantzakis's works.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50874355384594,"sku":"9780691203171","price":90.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dd8b0dbb-0537-4395-9805-99544488fdcc.jpg?v=1737990542","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-selected-letters-of-nikos-kazantzakis-9780691203171","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}