He is a man who knows how to live, how to love, how to grieve, how to dance in moments when dancing speaks louder than words. Zorba tells us a lot of life secrets and teaches us a lot of things. It tells us how life is simple and full of beauty and surprises, but it is not perfect, so all we have to do is live life with its bitterness and sweetness as Zorba used to live it as if he were going to die in a minute. In Zorba we read about the friendship of two men, a man who lives among books and papers, words are his only window to life. And a man facing life with bare arms, will the "man of words" be able to tame the "man of actions" or will the latter be able to convince him and us not to trust too much of the books? And to pile up all those books and set them on fire? "But how can you, understand this, you who have been corrupted by those damn books!" A novel written by a novelist-philosopher, the Greek Nikos Kazantzaki, and translated by a man of literature, thought and philosophy, the thinker George Tarabishi.
