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My Guru and His Disciple
Engelsk Paperback
My Guru and His Disciple
Engelsk Paperback

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My Guru and His Disciple is a sweetly modest and honest portrait of Isherwood''s spiritual instructor, Swami Prabhavananda, the Hindu priest who guided Isherwood for some thirty years.

It is also a book about the often amusing and sometimes painful counterpoint between worldliness and holiness in Isherwood''s own life. Sexual sprees, all-night drinking bouts, a fast car ride with Greta Garbo, scriptwriting conferences at MGM, intellectual sparring sessions with Berthold Brecht alternated with nights of fasting at the Vedanta Center, a six-month period of celibacy and sobriety, and the pious drudgery of translating (in collaboration with the Swami) the Bhagavad-Gita.

Seldom has a single man been owed with such strong drives toward both sensuality and spirituality, abandon and discipline; out of the passionate dialectic between these drives, My Guru and His Disciple has been written.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
352
ISBN-13:
9781250254870
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1250254876
Udg. Dato:
31 mar 2020
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
138mm
Højde:
209mm
Forlag:
Picador
Oplagsdato:
31 mar 2020
Forfatter(e):
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