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  More on Meeting Eleni Kazantzakis

In Geneva the Summer of 1988  . . . and “the second sunrise of my soul” Nikos Kazantzakis died October 26, 1967 at seventy-four.  His wife Eleni (our “Helen” in English) lived a little past the age of one hundred. … Continue reading →

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Meeting Eleni Kazantzakis, wife of Nikos, in 1988

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We met at her home on 32 Avenue William Favre in Geneva, Switzerland, on a sunny afternoon in the late summer of 1988 Nikos Kazantzakis died October 26, 1957 at seventy-four.  His wife Eleni (our “Helen” in English) died just … Continue reading →

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