The character of Zorba is reminiscent of several of the major comic characters in Western literature. He has been compared to Shakespeare's Falstaff, and to Cervantes's Sancho Panza. The latter comparison is inadequate, however; much of Zorba's idealism recalls the admirable "fool" who is Sancho's "boss," Don Quixote. Zorba is also.....
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