Níkos Kazantzákis:
(Iraklion, Crete 18 February 1883 – Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 26 October 1957).
Also transliterated as Kazandzákis, was one of the most important Greek writers of the 20th century.
He studied law in Athens and philosophy in Paris with Henri Bergson. He began his career as a writer as a journalist. Kazantzákis was also politically active: at an early age he already held a director’s post at the Greek Ministry of Social Affairs, and after World War I he was put in charge of a committee for the repatriation of Greek refugees who, fleeing the violence of the war in Turkish Asia Minor, had fled to the Caucasus and southern Russia. Through his action, 150,000 Greeks were saved from starvation in Russia.
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes with which we see reality.
