Traveling around the island of Crete

Nikos Kazantzakis was born on February 18, 1883 in Heraklion. Raised in a village that later was reflected in his work. In 1903 - 1906 years Kazantzakis studied law at Athens University and a year later - the philosophy of the Parisian "College de France. Parisian teacher Kazantzakis, philosopher Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941) had a significant impact on the mindset of the writer. In 1927, the famous Cretan wrote his first philosophical work "Askitiki" based on the ideas of Bergson. His numerous novels (including "Zorba the Greek"), drama, poems and stories inspired by the ideas and intuitional. In 1951 he published his controversial book "The Last Temptation of Christ", introduced by the Catholic Church in the Index of prohibited books. Greek Orthodox Church excommunicates author of Communion, and several years later, in 1957, a writer dying of leukemia. In the Cretan village of Myrtie (formerly Barbara), which remained his father's house Kazantzakis, is a museum of the writer.