“Cada viajero perfecto siempre crea el país al que viaja.”
Citado en: Reporter in Red China (1966) de Charles Taylor
Nikos Kazantzakis fue un escritor griego, autor de poemas, novelas, ensayos, obras de teatro y libros de viaje. Posiblemente, es el escritor y filósofo griego más importante del siglo XX y el que ha sido traducido a más lenguas. No obstante, no fue muy conocido hasta el estreno de la película Zorba, el griego , de Michael Cacoyannis, basada en la novela homónima y obra más reconocida de Kazantzakis junto con La última tentación de Cristo. Wikipedia
“Cada viajero perfecto siempre crea el país al que viaja.”
Citado en: Reporter in Red China (1966) de Charles Taylor
Toda Raba (1934)
Zorba the Greek
Original: «All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind».
Fuente: Report to El Greco (1923)
Fuente: Ficha de Odyssey of Faith. 6 de junio de 1960. http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,874166,00.html Time Consultado el 26 de septiembre de 2019.
Zorba the Greek
The Last Temptation of Christ
Fuente: Report to Greco (1965), p. 434; in a few publications since 2008 part of this has been misattributed to Franz Kafka: "By believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."
From the Bull Ritual, Book VI, line 197
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)
Odysseus, Book XI, line 840
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)
“If you love me, be patient. Look at the trees. Are they in a hurry to ripen their fruit?”
The Last Temptation of Christ (1951)
In response to attempts by leaders of the Greek Orthodox church to anathematize him, as quoted in God's Struggler : Religion in the Writings of Nikos Kazantzakis (1996) by Darren J. N. Middleton and Peter Bien, p. 12
Odysseus, Book VIII, line 530
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)
Death of Phida, Book VIII, line 410
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)
Odysseus, Book XI, line 846
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)
Prayer of three revolutionaries, Book X, line 391
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)
Book IX, line 402
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)
Fuente: The Last Temptation of Christ (1951), Ch. 10
“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”
Michael Korda, in Success! (1977), p. 284
Misattributed
Book VII, line 356
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)
“Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time.”
Fuente: Zorba the Greek (1946), Ch. 8
Slave's prayer, Book XI, line 708
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)