My Guru and His Disciple
  • Published:
    Aug-1981
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    338
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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 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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    • First Edition
    • Aug-1981
    • Penguin
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0140058370
    • ISBN13: 9780140058376
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    • Aug-1996
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0374520879
    • ISBN13: 9780374520878
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    • Nov-2013
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Nov-2013
    • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1466853301
    • ISBN13: 9781466853300



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