The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel

Nikos Kazantzakis (1883 - 1957)

1958 Third Edition, Simon & Schuster, New York

Large octavo.  Gilt letters on blue buckram cloth in NEAR FINE unmarked condition in a VERY GOOD Brodart protected dust jacket.  xxxviii, 824 pp.  Illustrations by Ghika.  Introduction, synopsis, and notes by Kimm Friar.  This Odyssey is divided into twenty-four rhapsodies as is the original Odyssey and consists of 33,333 17-syllable verses representing Kazantzakis' ideology and metaphysical concerns.  Kazantzakis was arguably the most important and most translated Greek writer and philosopher of the 20th Century.  He considered this his most important work.