Strange Life of P.D.Ouspensky
An elucidating biography of one of the most original thinkers of the 20th century
Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky was a complex and romantic soul.
A promising young intellectual in Tsarist Russia, he won recognition as a novelist and philosopher, yet descended into self-chosen obscurity as a teacher of ''the Work'', the system of his great contemporary Gurdjieff.
Today, it is as Gurdjieff''s chief disci...
An elucidating biography of one of the most original thinkers of the 20th century
Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky was a complex and romantic soul.
A promising young intellectual in Tsarist Russia, he won recognition as a novelist and philosopher, yet descended into self-chosen obscurity as a teacher of ''the Work'', the system of his great contemporary Gurdjieff.
Today, it is as Gurdjieff''s chief disci...
