To the public on several continents the name ‘Savalas’ means Telly, the most famous of her children. To her children, however, it means ‘Christina’ — a woman who forged her own values and sought her own identity. In an age and in a society where women were expected to be docile and domestic, she emerged as an artist and a poet, and a woman very much aware of her individuality…
Homecoming — nostos— was to be a memorable experience for Kimon Friar. After a year of psychoanalysis with Theodore Reich in New York, he had overcome the psychological block to his creativity. Dr. Reich had urged him to complete his analysis by visiting Greece.
Kimon Friar is a human dynamo. Though his translation of Kazantzakis’s The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel is perhaps the work for which he is best known, it is but one in a long list of remarkable achievements.
