The title character of that novel uses a cimbalom to seduce Madame Hortense while he is helping the narrator to start a lignite mine.
The preface to one novel by this author invokes the "dual substance" of its title character, who lives with Mary and Martha and raises a family. Another work by this author centers on the lives of Nuri Bey and Captain Michaelis and is usually published as Freedom or Death. In another of this author's novels, the narrator's friend had derided the title character as a "bookworm" for not going with him to rescue people in the Caucasus. The title character of that novel uses a cimbalom to seduce Madame Hortense while he is helping the narrator to start a lignite mine. For 10 points, name this author of The Last Temptation of Christ and Zorba the Greek who hailed from Crete.
The preface to one novel by this author invokes the "dual substance" of its title character, who lives with Mary and Martha and raises a family.
Nikos Kazantzakis