Zorba the Greek | Social Concerns
As a rule, Kazantzakis is more concerned with exploring questions of philosophy in his novels than he is with specific social issues. Nevertheless, in Zorba the Greek he takes several opportunities to comment on contemporary situations. Of greatest significance is the political background against which the story of the narrator and Zorba is set. While the two men engage in what some may consider escapist adventures on Crete, the narrator's friend Stavridaki is helping Greek partisans in the Balkans evacuate endangered countrymen from that region, where they face almost certain...
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