Zorba the Greek

On one of the beaches of Crete, two men meet to invest in a lignite mine. And one of them, the narrator, tries to escape from the exhausting, disappointing world of knowledge. He has met a companion, the Macedonian Kassisides Zorba, who is an amazing person, adventurous, a wild Sindbad, entrusted with managing the business. Soon, deep bonds of friendship were formed between that self-absorbed, Eastern-philosophy-filled civilized man and that magnificent savage driven by strong instincts, who lives life with all its fullness and vigor, loves nature and women, and recounts his romantic adventures with rare vitality, speaking wisdom more beautifully than a philosopher. The mine investment ended in failure, but the story that the reader lives with these two heroes and other characters, especially that adventurous woman who fell in love with Zorba, remains one of the greatest masterpieces in modern literature. Recently, it was adapted into an excellent film in which Anthony Quinn played Zorba, alongside Irene Papas, who portrayed the role of the widow who sacrificed herself for the glory of the village. An astonishing novel that will remain at the forefront of world novels.