This article presents the proteicity of some forms of discourse which combines aesthetics and representations, referring to mentalities and even ideology, in a genuine kind of metatext. Being a pretext for his atipic literature with philosophical insertions, Nikos Kazantzakis’ voyages in China and Japan create the appropriate atmosphere for a temperate fiction and a hyperbolic reality. From this perspective a realistic allegory about the eternal China and the fragile Japan, two sources of chaos and wisdom in the same time, arises. Prefiguring some patterns of a sui generis postmodernism, this writing includes several topical ideas like the universality of a unique religion, the intercultural changes and even the idea of a mankind which recovers the signs of the humanity.