Report to el greco biography
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Report to Greco
Plot
A kind of spiritual biography or, as Kazantzakis himself terms it, a "report" in the military sense of the word, regarding his goals and endeavours.
Report to el greco biography
The author begins his account in his childhood (having previously referred to his ancestors and parents) and ends on the day of the "Cretan Glance" and the conception of the Odyssey. He does not recount the whole of his life, presenting instead the milestones in his spiritual journey, without adhering to the chronological order of his actual biography.
Writing history
Kazantzakis' letters to Prevelakis reveal that he planned the work from , but aimed to write it "in several years' time".
He initially envisaged it as a dialogue, under the provisional title "Chatting with Greco".
In , while writing The Fratricides, the idea for the Report took shape. He began it at Lugano in Switzerland in , entitling it Letters to Greco, and continued it in Antibes in , when he gave the book its definitive title.
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