Kazantzakis's autobiographical novel 'Report to Greco' was one of the last things he wrote before he died. It paints a vivid picture of his childhood in Crete still occupied by the Turks and then steadily grows into a spiritual quest that takes him to Italy Jerusalem Paris Vienna Berlin Russia and the Caucasus and finally back to Crete again. At different times Nietzsche Bergson Buddha Homer and Christ dominate as his spiritual masters.