Summary
Nikos Kazantzakis: Freedom or Death
The colors, smells, sounds and tastes of Crete overwhelm the reader's senses as he reads this epically powerful novel about the Cretans' struggle for freedom from Ottoman rule, a struggle that grows into an allegory of man's universal struggle for freedom, wherever and whenever it is fought. The protagonists are people with strong emotions, uncompromising and ready to die for their own ideals at any moment. Each of them is faced with their own intimate contradictions, in the dilemma of how to reconcile belonging to the community and loyalty to a friend of another faith, how to deal with their own inner demons, and how to reconcile passions and desires that repel each other. The novel Freedom or Death is Kazantzakis' ravishing ode to Crete, the Cretans and the times when larger-than-life people walked the island.
Freedom or Death, a novel by the great Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957), author of the novels The Last Temptation of Christ, Zorba the Greek and the Fratricide, is a new title in Sandorf's edition of Selected Works of Nikos Kazantzakis.
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