My re-translation of Kazantzakis’s novel “Zorba the Greek” was published by Simon & Schuster in December 2014. The novel needed to be re-translated because the original translation into English was done by someone who did not understand Greek and who therefore used a previous translation into French as his text, carrying forward into the English translation all of the French translation’s omissions and errors. My re-translation has of course used as its text the author’s original version in Greek. Even the title is different. The author’s title is “The Saint’s Life of Zorba.”
Peter Bien
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