He continues to translate his plays. In March he resigns from UNESCO in order to devote himself fully to his own writing. Julian is staged in Paris( one performance only.) Kazantzakis and Eleni move to Antibes, where he immediately composes the Sodom and Gomorrah.
Alexis Zorbas is accepted by publishers in England, the United States, Sweden, and Czechoslovakia. Kazantzakis writes the first draft of Christ Recrucified in three months, then spends two more months revising it.