From Homer to Nabokov: What Every Writer Fears

Why there will be no second Hugo, no second Tolstoy, no second Proust...

Nikos Kazantzakis was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature nine times and is considered to be the Homer of 20th century Greek literature. (From the biopic Kazantzakis 2017, Smaragdis)

‘One day without a clear purpose in mind I took a pen and started writing. This was a crucial moment in my life. Thoughts, memories of important times, of a girl, t…