A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Life (The Journals of Thomas Merton, vol.3)

Thomas Merton

ISBN 10: 0060654783 / ISBN 13: 9780060654788

Published by Harper San Francisco, 1996

Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers. Seller Inventory # 00101160556

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).

About the Author:

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

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's ...
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good