Report to Greco Author:Nikos Kazantzakis The author's memoir of his life and work, his early influences from people and travel, his friendships and loves, and the process of artistic development: the summing-up of life and experience by "one of the truly great writers of our (20th) century". — Kazantzakis's autobiographical novel 'Report to Greco' w... more »as one of the last things he wrote before he died. It paints a vivid picture of his childhood in Crete, still occupied by the Turks, and then steadily grows into a spiritual quest that takes him to Italy, Jerusalem, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Russia and the Caucasus, and finally back to Crete again. At different times Nietzsche, Bergson, Buddha, Homer and Christ dominate as his spiritual masters.« less