Killers of the Dream
"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, script-writing conferences at M-G-M, and intellectual sparring sessions with Bertolt Brecht alternated with nights of fasting at the Vedanta Center and a six-month period of celibacy and sobriety. Seldom has a single man been endowed with such strong drives toward both sensuality and spirituality, abandon and discipline. . . . In these pages, Isherwood has reinvented the spirit of devotion for the modern reader." Edmund White, New York Times Book Review
"This book is a humbling tribute to someone who revealed to Isherwood inner grounds for spiritual awareness." Alan Hollinghurst, New Statesman
A major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement, Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986) is the author of Down There on a Visit, Lions and Shadows, A Meeting by the River, The Memorial, Prater Violet, A Single Man, and The World in the Evening, all available from the University of Minnesota Press.
Country | USA |
Author | Christopher Isherwood |
Binding | Paperback |
Brand | Brand: Univ Of Minnesota Press |
EAN | 9780816638642 |
Edition | Reprint |
Feature | Used Book in Good Condition |
ISBN | 0816638640 |
Label | Univ Of Minnesota Press |
Manufacturer | Univ Of Minnesota Press |
MPN | 9780816638642 |
NumberOfItems | 1 |
NumberOfPages | 352 |
PartNumber | 9780816638642 |
PublicationDate | 2001-09-27 |
Publisher | Univ Of Minnesota Press |
Studio | Univ Of Minnesota Press |
ReleaseDate | 0000-00-00 |