nikos kazantzakis report to greco

The Greek writer reviews his life, his art, and his quest for spiritual truth Kazantzakis was a great admirer of El Greco and a visit to his homeland is described in the book. It seems less like fiction to me and more like an authentic account of how an astonishingly … After nearly two weeks of effort, I finally finished Nikos Kazantzakis' Report to Greco on Sunday. I mean that in the sense of beyond the usual. It is an autobiography, but not of the sort that most of us are used to. The author. Comments by Bob Corbett. Report to Greco was pretty much the last thing the great Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis wrote, and though it is complete in and of itself, it was only really a first draft. Comments by Bob Corbett. Report to Greco is a poet’s view of his life, a life that in his imagination rises forth with the mystic clods of Cretan earth he carries in spirit and body across the globe. Nikos Kazantzakis was an extraordinary writer of passion and patriotism, and like a good many people I came to him as a result of the film, Zorba the … Disarmingly personal and intensely philosophical, Report to Greco is a fictionalized account of Greek philosopher and writer Nikos Kazantzakis’s own life, a sort of intellectual autobiography that leads readers through his wide-ranging observations on everything from the Hegelian dialectic to the nature of human existence, all framed as a report to the Spanish Renaissance painter El Greco. The author. The book is a somewhat fictionalized autobiography, although the extent of the fictional elements is impossible to decipher. Nikos Kazantzakis was an extraordinary writer of passion and patriotism, and like a good many people I came to him as a result of the film, Zorba the … It seems less like fiction to me… It paints a vivid picture of his childhood in Crete, still. The book is a somewhat fictionalized autobiography, although the extent of the fictional elements is impossible to decipher. This was the sole place in REPORT TO GRECO in which I really wondered or cared about the “true” story in the sense of the actual autobiographical background. Nikos Kazantzakis describes his relationship with Kathleen in chapter 14, entitled “The Irish Lass” in his autobiographical novel Report to Greco. Written while close to death, it has not suffered from endless rewrites and comes over as being a fresh and gutsy report back on life from Kazantzakis to the painter El Greco. This book is extraordinary. After nearly two weeks of effort, I finally finished Nikos Kazantzakis’ Report to Greco on Sunday. Disarmingly personal and intensely philosophical, Report to Greco is a fictionalized account of Greek philosopher and writer Nikos Kazantzakis’s own life, a sort of intellectual autobiography that leads readers through his wide-ranging observations on everything from the Hegelian dialectic to the nature of human existence, all framed as a report to the Spanish Renaissance painter El Greco. Free download or read online Report to Greco pdf (ePUB) book.