Kazantzakis is an author whose major work, The Last Temptation of Christ,

I confess to being deeply familiar with, having read it a couple of times over, and it having lodged like a chicken-bone in several passages of my soul; gorgeous tatters of flamboyant (modern, heterosexual, Christian) Greek Prose, exhorting me to Dance! for my very Soul's sake...Come to think of it, that was Zorba, whereof I never saw the movie, nor read the novel, but somehow I know all about it.