The Odyssey; a Modern SequelNikos Kazantzakis

The Odyssey; a Modern Sequel

by Nikos Kazantzakis · first published 1958

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ineedasername · Dec 25, 2020 · Recommends

Try The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel. By Nikos Kazantzakis, a true bonafide genius of a writer whose imagery in exploring the life of Odysseus after her returns home and finds it less than fulfilling after 20 years if adventure & struggle,…
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ineedasername · Sep 3, 2020 · Recommends

…is by Nikos kazantzakis, a Greek himself and perhaps one of the best (and least well-known) of the past 100 years. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature, he wrote a truly amazing book called The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel. [0] Even translated into English, the language is indescribably entrancing. I won't try to do it justice here. Thematically, it picks up where Homer left off: Odysseus, genius & trickster, covered in…
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dhosek · Sep 30, 2026 · Mentions

I’ve kept a log of every¹ book I’ve read for the last 31+ years at https://don.dream-in-color.net/books/ The most recent was Careless People. Currently reading Nikos Kazantzakis’s The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel and The Stories (so far) of Deborah Eisenberg.
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