Description
A luminous retelling of the life of Francis of Assisi, this work follows a young man’s breathtaking conversion from privilege to radical poverty, as he dares to live the Gospel against the resistance of family, society, and the familiar comforts of status. Moving through the Italian countryside, Rome, and the Holy Land, the narrative traces Francis’s struggle with the self and with human weakness, even as his love expands outward—to people, to nature, and to every creature great and small. With Kazantzakis’s protean, spiritually charged style, the story becomes more than biography: it is a meditation on divine poverty, inner transformation, and the quiet power of faith to remake a life from within. For readers seeking meaning in hardship, it offers a hopeful vision of the strength that can rise in the most destitute places.
Available Editions
paperback
Simon & Schuster
Published Jan 1, 1962
390 pages
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Details
First Published
1966
Language
eng
Translation
From: gre
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Saint Francis by Nikos Kazantzakis.