In the canon
Zorba the Greek
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1946
- Originally in
- Originally in Greek
- Pages
- Pages 340
A bookish young Greek travels to Crete to work a failing mine with an older labourer who drinks, dances and loves without restraint, and when the whole venture collapses in ruins, they dance together on the beach.
Whenever I feel I'm choking with some emotion, he says: "Dance!" and I dance. And I feel better!
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