Books: Odyssey of Faith

THE SAVIORS OF GOD (143 pp.)—Nikos Kazantzakis—Simon 6-Schuster ($4.50).

In his still unpublished book of memoirs. Report to El Greco, Greece's late great man of letters, Nikos Kazantzakis wrote: "All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind." Readers of this strange little book of aphorisms, which Kazantzakis finished in 1923 before he wrote such works as Zorba the Greek and The Odyssey: a Modern Sequel,...

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