Kazantzakis

[ kaz-uhn-zak-is, kah-zuhn-zah-kis; Greek kah-zahn-dzah-kees ]

noun

1. Ni·kos [nee, -kaws], 1883–1957, Greek poet and novelist.

Kazantzakis

/ kazanˈdzakis /

noun

1. KazantzakisNikos18851957MGreekWRITING: novelistWRITING: poetTHEATRE: dramatist Nikos (ˈnikɔs). 1885–1957, Greek novelist, poet, and dramatist, noted esp for his novels Zorba the Greek (1946) and Christ Recrucified (1954) and his epic poem The Odyssey (1938).

Example Sentences

He quotes Christ and Kazantzakis, pals around with kindred villains, regularly has sex with balloon-breasted ladies but also spends a lot of time alone, which means the comic panels overflow with his loathing and insipid thoughts.

From New York Times

“Widely known for rendering ‘Gone with the Wind’ into Vietnamese, Duong Tuong translated a huge range of world literature, from Roald Dahl’s ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ to Stefan Zweig’s ‘Letter from an Unknown Woman,’ to Alex Haley’s ‘Roots,’ to Nikos Kazantzakis’s ‘Zorba the Greek,’ ” Cam Nguyen, a lecturer at the department of South and Southeast Asian studies at the University of California, Berkeley, said in an email.

From New York Times

‘The Last Temptation of Christ’ Willem Dafoe portrays the man from Galilee in director Martin Scorsese’s controversial 1988 adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis’ controversial 1955 novel.

From Los Angeles Times

“The Last Temptation of Christ” Willem Dafoe is the man from Galilee in director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader’s powerful 1988 adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis’ controversial novel.

From Los Angeles Times

The kids won’t believe it now, but in 1988 the biggest thing we had to complain about was Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Temptation of Christ,” a Hollywood adaptation of a novel by Nikos Kazantzakis that includes a vision of Jesus married to Mary Magdalene.

From Washington Post