My guru and his disciple

Resource Information

The work My guru and his disciple represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

My guru and his disciple

Statement of responsibility

Christopher Isherwood

Creator

• Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986

Author

• Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986

Subject

• Electronic books
• Gurus -- United States -- Biography
• Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986
• Prabhavananda, Swami, 1893-1976
• Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986 -- Religion
• Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography

Genre

• Electronic books
• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• hoopla (Digital media service)

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

• 823/.912
• B

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult