ABSTRACT
In the summer of 1946 Nikos Kazantzakis travelled to England as the guest of the British Council. During the first half of his visit he was in London, but made short trips to Cambridge, Oxford and Stratford-upon-Avon. On the face of it Kazantzakis' stay in England chalked up a series of resounding failures. He was rebuffed by the British intelligentsia and his Internationale of the Spirit was a very damp squib. As a result, he failed to gather any material for the book on 'Post-war conversations with English intellectual personalities' that was supposed to be the purpose of his stay, and it was never written. His hopes of finding a translator for Zorba while in England failed to materialize. His English was probably inadequate to put his message across: it appears that many of his discussions were actually conducted in French. When he went to England he had, more or less, retired from active involvement in Greek politics.
