In Cacoyannis’s lens, Crete was not merely a setting. That barren plain, that coastline, that aged Greek village, all were externalizations of Zorba’s soul. Mikis Theodorakis’s music…
The oral tradition roots of Kyrgyz literature were unmistakably present in Aitmatov’s prose. The work could be read as an epic poem. Events were arranged not in chronological but in emotional…