Ooievaar pockets: Zen en de kunst van het motoronderhoud
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Robert M. Pirsig Book order (chronological)
September 6, 1928 – April 24, 2017
Robert Maynard Pirsig was an American writer and philosopher whose work delved into profound questions of value and quality. He masterfully blended philosophical inquiry with compelling narratives, urging readers to contemplate the nature of reality and the meaning of life. Pirsig's writing is marked by its incisive analysis and a unique perspective on the human experience. His approach encourages a deeper understanding of the world through thoughtful exploration.
De donderprofeet en andere motorverhalen
- 255 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Dutch
Lila
An Inquiry Into Morals
In this best-selling new book, his first in seventeen years, Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, takes us on a poignant and passionate journey as mysterious and compelling as his first life-changing work. Instead of a motorcycle, a sailboat carries his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus down the Hudson River as winter closes in. Along the way he picks up a most unlikely traveling companion: a woman named Lila who in her desperate sexuality, hostility, and oncoming madness threatens to disrupt his life.In Lila Robert M. Pirsig has crafted a unique work of adventure and ideas that examines the essential issues of the nineties as his previous classic did the seventies.
The novel, published in 1974, uses a long motorcycle trip to frame a prolonged exploration of the world of ideas, about life and how best to live it. It references perspectives from Western and Eastern Civilizations as it explores the central question of the how to pursue technology so that human life is enriched rather than degraded. Narrated in the first person, it incorporates a parallel presentation of trip details and an ongoing retrospective concerning dramatic events from the Narrator's past, creating rich symbolism and including numerous analogies reinforcing the overall theme of coming to terms with the mysteries of why we exist and how best to live.