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Chargement... Mon gourou et son disciplepar Christopher Isherwood
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Isherwood's life in Hollywood while studying with Swami Prabhavananda A reworking of Isherwood's diaries from 1939 through 1975. The main theme of the book is his relationship to his guru in the Vedanta Society. I found Isherwood's continued devotion puzzling, but moving, though I'm glad he found another path for his life other than living as a Hindu monk which was clearly making him crazy. This also touches on his pacifism during World War II and his work for the Hollywood studios. Christopher Isherwood moved with his friends W. H. Auden and Winston Somerset Maugham to the USA in 1939. This book, mainly constructed around Christopher Isherwood's diary from 1939 to 1976 is his memoir of his life in America but especially in relation to his friendship with (and devotion to) Swami Prabhavananda. Swami Prabhavananda was a Hindu monk of the Ramakrishna order founded by Swami Vivekanada in 1897. Swami Prabhavananda was sent from India to America by the order to assist at several centres of the movement and eventually founded the Vedanta Society of Southern California. I was expecting a personal story of the spiritual search of a gay man, a further explanation of why gay men seem especially drawn to a spiritual life. My initial reaction to Christopher Isherwood's explanation was that it was very superficial, even dishonest. He had met a young man in Germany who had been conscripted into the Nazi army. Unable to conceive of doing anything that could directly or indirectly bring about Heinz's death, Christopher Isherwood was determined to have nothing to do with the coming war and was therefore a pacifist, however thinking that he needed a more substantial basis for his pacifism, he moved into a circle (including Aldous Huxley and Gerald Heard) in which he came into contact with the Vedanta Society and Swami Prabhavananda. However further into the book I realise my initial reaction was false. The last thing that can be said about Isherwood is that he is dishonest. Later in the book, he is worried about speaking about religion and taking a high profile in the Vedanta Society because he thinks his homosexuality and openness about his life as revealed in his novels makes him not respectable. The Swami reassures him that the most important thing is his honesty. His approach to religion (and his writing) is emotional, sensual and devotional rather than intellectual and there is very little of the philosophy of Vedanta in this book. I guess Christopher Isherwood had never really rationalised the process that drew him to a religious life and I can say nothing wrong about that. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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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. Récit traduit de l'anglais par Léo Dilé. 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.
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