by Nikos Kazantzakis · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789507246067
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«El pobre de Asís» is the biographical novel by Nikos Kazantzakis about Saint Francis of Assisi, published by Sites/Lumen Books in paperback.
The novel recreates the life of Saint Francis of Assisi from the experience of the saint himself: his renunciation of material goods, his devotion to the most disadvantaged and his relationship with nature, reflected in the episode of the preaching to the birds. Kazantzakis presents a human, doubting and passionate Francis in his search for God, with a style that combines mysticism and realism.
Published in 1997 in Spanish and included in the Religion and Spirituality categories. A work of religious fiction.
For readers interested in Franciscan spirituality and the fiction of Nikos Kazantzakis.
Nikos Kazantzakis was a Greek writer, journalist, politician, poet and philosopher. Widely considered a giant of modern Greek literature, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in nine different years, and remains the most translated Greek author worldwide.
