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REPORT TO GRECO, by Nikos Kazantzakis. The tormented Greek writer's autobiography is a powerful, personal testament and a key to the sources of his obsession with God. Kazantzakis died when the book was only in first draft, but the occasional rudeness and awkwardness show the raw energy in his creative gift...
...Paris Burning? Collins and Lapierre (2) 5. Markings, Hammarskjöld (5) 6. Games People Play, Berne (4) 7. The Oxford History of the American People, Morison (7) 8. The Memoirs of an Amnesiac, Levant (8) 9. Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley (9) 10. Report to Greco, Kazantzakis...
...under the influence of Byzantium, whose hovering saints were stripped of flesh, transcendentally vaporous, symbols of life beyond death. So otherworldly was Byzantine art that by the time Charlemagne was crowned, images of the sacred figures had been banned for 74 years. Eastern iconoclasm had emphatically blotted out the Greco-Roman exaltation of living man. The new Carolingian Emperor personally set about to change the art of his times...
REPORT TO GRECO, by Nikos Kazantzakis. The tormented Greek writer's autobiography is a powerful, personal testament and a key to the sources of his obsession with God. Kazantzakis died when the book was only in first draft, but the occasional rudeness and awkwardness show the raw energy in his creative gift...
...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...