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I read this book many years ago, and I was spiritually changed by it. I now want to read it a second time to review the mystery of it all.
Nikos' search for more made his journey full because he was open to experience it ALL. He was a mystic individual.
My schedule hasn't allowed me the pleasure to read it the second time yet, but I am definitely looking forward to it. I'll probably want to read it a third time.


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Report to Greco Nikos Kazantzakis 9780671220273 Books Reviews

OK
I liked most of this book alot. Thought provoking and vivid telling of his experiences from child through adult. But the epilogue gets a little out there for me. It was very hard to stay with it and figure out what the hell he is really talking about for several pages near the end. A little over my head there. But hey, that's me...i'm not a "genius" like the reviewer on the back cover said he was.
A masterpiece, the golden fruit of a life of awakening, passion and exploration. This book is a treasure of knowledge and high conscience. A great adventure for the mind and spirit.
Kazantzakis has the primal spirit of a god, the power of a savage, and the lyricism of a poet. Awesome style and glimpse into the Greek soul...
A friend of mine who is a serious writer told me that Nikos Kazantzakis is her absolute favorite writer. Report to Greco wasn't in our local library and I had to have it. I have savored every chapter, made notes and gone back to read it again. It's necessary to read this book when one's brain is awake or miss something wonderful. This is the story of a dedicated man's search for his soul through travel to sacred places and meeting challenging people and ideas.
Get it and read a beautiful set of concepts, like
“Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for honorable sanctity. Hero together with “ethics” such is mankind's supreme model.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco.
And from an inscription on his tombstone. “I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

But these ideas are as strange as is the so called "American Democracy', which could not be farther from the true sense of Periclean Democracy.
The spiritual travels to find himself and his inner soul are fascinating and the geography covered is extensive and with Kazantzakis' descriptions of the scenery, one feels that they are walking right along side him from Europe to Greece, the Mid East and beyond.

At one point, Kazantzakis is traveling with his friend Buddhaki to Mt. Athos to visit the many monasteries there and they come upon a Father Makarios. They muse on the ego, separation from God, etc., and when it is time to go, the good Father says, ["Good luck. God be with you." And a moment later, mockingly "Regards to the world." "Regards to heaven," I retorted. "And tell God it's not our fault but his-because He made the world so beautiful."] (p 225)

On a trip to Jerusalem they meet a young man who ["...was passionately condemning the dishonesty and injustice of present-day economic and social life. The masses went hungry while the great and powerful piled up fortunes. Women sold themselves, priest did not believe, both heaven and the infernal pit were here on earth. The afterlife did not exist; here was where we had to find justice and happiness.... Cries rang out "Yes, yes, you're right!" "Fire and axe!" Only one person attempted to object." ..."It was frightening. The purpose of trip was to worship the sweet, familiar face of God-so gentle, so tortured, so filled with hopes for life everlasting." ..."...we were carrying as a terrifying gift the seed of a new, dangerous, and as yet unformed cosmogony."] (p 245)

Later and on the road to the Dead Sea, "I had found it necessary to purge my bowels and expel the demons inside me-wolves, monkeys, women; minor virtues, minor joys, successes-so that I could remain simply an upright flame directed toward heaven. Now that I was a man, what was I doing but enacting what I had so ardently desired as a child in the courtyard of our family home! A person is only born once; I would never have another chance!" (p 252)

*Kazantzakis begins to summarize his spiritual journey with, "Our journey to the fatal intellectual Golgotha thus becomes more loaded with responsibility because now, looking at the Cretans, we know that if we fail to become human, the fault is ours, ours alone. For this lofty species-man-exists, he made his appearance on earth, and there is no longer any justification whatever for our deterioration and cowardice." (p 441)*

At the end is, "Just then-as fate was in a mood to play games-I made the acquaintance of an elderly mineworker named Alexis Zorba." (Zorba the Greek). This leads Kazantzakis to an introductory chapter on Zorba wherein he states, "My life's greatest benefactors have been journeys and dreams. Very few people, living or dead, have aided my struggle. If, however, I wished to designate which people left their traces imbedded most deeply in my soul, I would perhaps designate Homer, Buddha, Nietzsche, Bergson, and Zorba."

(p 445)

Kazantzakis was a prolific writer with incredible insight and wisdom and some of his best known works are "The Last Temptation of Christ" and "Zorba the Greek". Start in on any book, though, and one will most likely feel compelled to read them all!
I read this book many years ago, and I was spiritually changed by it. I now want to read it a second time to review the mystery of it all.
Nikos' search for more made his journey full because he was open to experience it ALL. He was a mystic individual.
My schedule hasn't allowed me the pleasure to read it the second time yet, but I am definitely looking forward to it. I'll probably want to read it a third time.