A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Life - Couverture rigide

Merton, Thomas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0060654783 ISBN 13 : 9780060654788

Editeur : HarperSanFrancisco, 1996

Synopsis

The third volume of Merton’s journals chronicles his struggle of reconcile his new celebrity with his desire for a life of silence and contemplation.

Already a bestselling author and celebrity, the Merton of this volume writes candidly of his yearning for silence and contemplation, of conflicts with monastic routine, and his exploration of Zen, existentialism, Marxism, and Latin American Culture.

Merton’s private writing combines a poet’s eye for the beauty of nature – in the woods and fields of the Abbey – as well as a fiction writer’s instinct for the idiosyncracies of his brethren, the rhythms and tediums of regular observance, the strengths of the monastery and its weaknesses.

Here in their original form are the reflections and observations that lie at the heart of his classic works such as Thoughts in Solitude (1958), Wisdom of the Desert (1960), and Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (1966).

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a Trappist monk, writer and peace activist. His spiritual classics include the bestselling `The Seven Storey Mountain’, `New Seeds of Contemplation’ and `The Sign of Jonas’.

Dr Robert E. Daggy is director of the Thomas Merton Studies Centre at Bellarmine College. He lives in Louisville, KY.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperSanFrancisco
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0060654783
• ISBN 13: 9780060654788
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 496
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible