“How can you confront this Dragon?” Kazantzakis writes about Zorba.

How can you tackle two dragons today, Nikos Kazantzakis and Zorba, even using the language of comics to reinterpret the iconic and widely translated novel Life and Adventures of Alexis Zorba?

Moreover, you have to wrestle with the myth and the dominant image of the character, as embodied by Anthony Quinn in Michael Cacoyannis’ film Zorba the Greek?

Life, love, God, death, but also Dionysus, Buddha, Nietzsche, Bergson, Shakespeare, Dante, Rodin...

In the graphic novel ZORBA, BEAUTIFUL GREEN STONE, Soloup does not simply create a transfer but attempts to retell the episodes of this particular novel.

He intervenes in the flow, reorganizes the inserted stories while simultaneously trying to avoid the strong stereotypes of the cinematic Zorba.

Thus, following the spirit of the Kazantzakis text, he proposes a new narrative of words and images, a new journey, philosophical, grotesque, tragic, for the modern reader.