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It then introduces the narrative world by depicting an early meeting in Piraeus amid stormy weather, café atmosphere, and the voices of sailors and dock workers. The text also frames publication, translation, and copyright conditions for the English edition.","NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS ZORBA THE GREEK  \n'Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle ...' Prologue to the Greek edition of Zorba the Greek  \nNikos Kazantzakis was born in 1883 in Herakleion on Crete, then part of the Ottoman Empire. His father, idealised as Captain Michales in Freedom and Death, was a farm trader. During the Cretan revolt of 1897 the family was sent to the island of Naxos, where he attended the French School of the Holy Cross, run by the Franciscans.  \nFrom 1902 to 1906 he studied law at Athens University. He also worked as a journalist. His first book, The Serpent and the Lily, was a lyric narrative influenced by D'Annunzio. He wrote several plays. His remarkable travels began in 1907 and there were few countries in Europe or Asia that he didn't visit in the course of his life. He made four journeys to the USSR. He attended Bergson's lectures in Paris and in 1908 wrote his doctoral dissertation on Nietzsche, as well as his first novel, Broken Souls. He worked for Venizelos during the first Balkan War and subsequently made a pilgrimage to the ancient sites of Greece with the poet Sikelianos. They spent forty days on Mount Athos. Two years later he unsuccessfully ran a lignite mine in the Peloponnesus with George Zorbas, immortalised in Zorba the Greek. He studied Buddhism in Vienna and later belonged to a group of radical intellectuals in Berlin, and began his great epic The Odyssey (33,333 lines, completed in 1938) . He wrote more novels, plays, travel journals, articles and translations. He visited England in 1940 and spent the war years on the island of Aegina under German occupation. He was Minister without Portfolio in the Sofoulis coalition government and worked briefly for Unesco. In 1954 the Vatican placed The Last Temptation on the Index. He finally settled in Antibes with his second wife. He died of leukaemia in October 1957, shortly after his return from a journey to China and Japan. He is buried at Herakleion, where the epitaph on his tomb reads: 'I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.'  \nThis translation first published in England by John Lehmann Ltd 1952  \nPublished by Bruno Cassirer Ltd, Oxford 1959 Published by Faber and Faber Limited  \n3 Queen Square London wcin 3AU in Faber paper-covered editions 1961 First published in this reset edition in 2000  \nTypeset by RefineCatch Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk Printed in England by Mackays of  \nChatham pic, Chatham, Kent All rights reserved  \n© Nikos Kazantzakis, 1952 Translation © Carl Wildman, 1952 © Helen Kazantzakis, 1958  \nCarl Wildman is hereby identified as translator of this work  \nin accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988  \nThis book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent,  \nre-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser  \nA CIP record for this book is available from the British Library  \nISBN 0-571-20313-2 ZORBA THE GREEK 2468 10 9753  \nI  \nI first met him in Piraeus. I wanted to take the boat for JL Crete and had gone down to the port. It was almost daybreak and raining. A strong sirocco was blowing the spray from the waves as far as the little cafe, whose glass doors were shut. The cafe reeked of brewing sage and human beings whose breath steamed the windows because of the cold outside. Five or six seamen, who had spent the night there, muffled in their brown goat-skin reefer-jackets, were drinking coffee or sage and gazing out of the misty windows at the sea. The fish, dazed by the blows of the raging waters, had taken refuge in the depths, where they were waiting till calm was restored above. 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