Description

Set against the formative light of Crete and the long arc of a restless life, this “report” traces the inner campaign of a writer determined to justify existence through thought, reading, and self-scrutiny. Rather than recounting events for their own sake, it follows the spiritual biography of a mind at work—seeking meaning, testing convictions, and turning literature into a living instrument for confronting suffering and doubt. Through encounters with major voices and ideas, the book explores themes of faith and skepticism, artistic vocation, moral responsibility, and the search for a worldview that can redeem pain without denying it. Written in Kazantzakis’s unmistakably urgent, philosophical style, it offers a candid, high-stakes portrait of how a life can be built from questions as much as from answers.

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paperback edition cover

paperback

Simon & Schuster

Published Jan 1, 2012

571 pages

ISBN: 9781476706863

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Details

First Published

1966

Language

eng

Translation

From: ell

Content Warnings

Content and trigger warnings for Report to Greco by Nikos Kazantzakis.

War/Trauma
Violence