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...visions which influenced him as much as any events in the "real world." And he links his spiritual adventures with the day-to-day events and people which inspired them--his father's command that he kiss the bloody corpses of the heroes who died for the liberty of Crete, the Irish girl to whom in a cold stone church, he first made love...
...himself in a noble tradition. The Consul in Under the Volcano, for example, may be one of the many examples of a man "alienated" from society but the hero of Report to Greco is a descendant of generations of proud Cretans and a son of the ancient island of Crete. It is no accident that the author begins the prologue with Cretan soil in his hand and ends it by addressing his grand-father...
...island of Crete, Kazantzakis, explains the book's title...
...seemed. He had a long memory-and a sharp knife for opponents. "This third palace fabrication," he maintained, will have "an ephemeral life. It will be crushed by internal rivalries. It will be crushed by popular anger." So saying, he set off to the island of Crete for a series of mass meetings on his favorite topic: the King should reign, and not rule...
...title pays Kazantzakis' respects to another dark and stormy Greek, born, like himself, on the island of Crete: Domenico Teoto-copulo, better known as the artist El Greco...