Idiots in Paris

In 1949, JG Bennett was engaged in, with Gurdjieff''s help, a titanic struggle with his own nature, which he describes in these diaries. However Elizabeth''s entries, which make up the bulk of this book, give witness to conditions in Gurdjieff''s circle at the end of his life—an impartial description with very little "self" in it. In 2012, when there are few people left alive who met and worked wi...