Zorba the Greek

Abstract

In the first chapter to the first major part in the theological and philosophical thought of Nikos Kazantzakis, Gill focuses how Kazantzakis uses nature as a way to speak of the dynamic relationship in the novel Zorba the Greek between the two main characters, the Boss and Zorba. He traces the development of their dynamic psychological relationship as an inadequate “pen-pusher”/Buddhist mystic and an “earthy” man of action, respectively, as they work together on an abandoned coalmine on the island of Crete.