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My Guru and his discipline

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 M-G-M, 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.

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  • "Dans ce récit autobiographique, Christopher Isherwood rend hommage, avec humour et tendresse, à celui qui fut son maître spirituel pendant près de quarante ans : le prêtre hindou Swami Prabhavananda, fondateur, à Hollywood, d un centre consacré à l étude et à la pratique de la philosophie hindoue.<br/>L écrivain, qui envisagea un temps de se faire moine, évoque avec talent les doutes et tergiversations d un homme partagé entre son attachement aux plaisirs sensuels et son désir d accomplissement spirituel.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Récit traduit de l'anglais par Léo Dilé.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Grande figure littéraire du vingtième siècle, Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) quitta l Angleterre en 1929 pour séjourner à Berlin et dans plusieurs pays d Europe, avant de parcourir la Chine en compagnie de W.H. Auden. Tous deux s installèrent ensuite aux États-Unis, où Isherwood devint, en 1946, citoyen américain. Son Suvre abondante est nourrie des voyages et des rencontres qui ont jalonné sa vie.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'><br/> </p><p> </p>"
  • "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 M-G-M, 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."@en

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  • "My Guru and his discipline"@en
  • "My Guru and his disciples"
  • "My guru and his disciple"
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  • "Mi gurú y su discípulo"
  • "Mi gurú y su discípulo"@es
  • "Mon gourou et son disciple"
  • "My guru and his discipline"
  • "My Guru and his disciple"

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