Toda Raba

Kazantzakis, Nikos (Amy Mims, translator)

Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1964

About this Item

Octavo. First printing. 220pp., This story was first written in 1929, after the author's return from the Soviet Union. The characters are, with one exception, reflections of the author himself, and represent his own deeply conflicting views of the Revolution. There is Rahel, a Polish-Jewish girl, drawn to Communism and working for the secret police, there is Azad, the exc-Checka murderer, who believes in the necessity for a new and purer revolution and thinks Communism must come from a change of man's soul, not from the machines and the materialism of Europe and America. There are others whom you will meet but towering over them all, in a mysterious way, is Toda Raba, an African Negro who abandons his tribe and his savage god to make a pilgrimage to Russia. He becomes the man of the future, and the Russian Revolution releases his energy and his sense of his own destiny. A near fine copy bound in ¼ rust cloth over green paper covered boards stamped in blind, spine lettered and decorated in a dark green one corner only slightly bumped in a very nice pictorial dust jacket with just a hint of toning and very light wear along the edges of the rear panel.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Toda Raba
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York
• Publication Date: 1964
• Edition: First Edition.
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