The bibliography for a writer is not just a list of articles and studies, so it is not only for anyone who wants to further explore his work. It is also a presentation of the publications in such a way that the reader can understand what the author's treatment was while he was alive, what was the reception of his work before and after his death, which works provoked reactions, how his action and thought were appreciated, which books referring to him aroused wider interest, etc.

This bibliography covers publications referring to Nikos Kazantzakis, but not the author's own work and philosophy. It contains 6,350 entries and extends from 1906 to 2012. It includes all the bibliographies published so far about the Cretan writer, with the most important being those of G. K. Katsimbalis and Peter Bien. Both the diligent philologist and researcher of Kazantzakis' work and the ordinary reader will find here articles, book and theater reviews, studies on the overall work and the individual texts, news about his life and death, poems inspired by him, dedications in magazines and newspapers, monographs on his philosophical and literary journey, mixed volumes with multifaceted analyses, commendatory and critical texts about his form. The compilation of this bibliography was based - as much as possible - on the research of all Greek-language criticism and bibliography and at the same time extended to articles and volumes published in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian, and Arabic.