Title: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Pdf An Inquiry Into Values
Author: Robert M. Pirsig
Published Date: 2005-08-02
Page: 464
“An unforgettable trip.” (Time)“The book is inspired, original. . . . The analogies with Moby-Dick are patent.” (The New Yorker)“Profoundly important...full of insights into our most perplexing contemporary dilemmas.” (New York Times)“It is filled with beauty. . .a finely made whole that seems to emanate from a very special grace.” (Baltimore Sun)“A miracle . . . sparkles like an electric dream.” (The Village Voice) Robert M. Pirsig (1928-2017) studied chemistry and philosophy (B.A., 1950) and journalism (M.A., 1958) at the University of Minnesota and also attended Benares Hindu University in India, where he studied Oriental philosophy. He is also the author of this book's sequel, entitled Lila.
A penetrating examination of how we live and how to live better
A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions on how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning; the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling science, religion, and humanism. Resonant with the confusions of existence, this classic is a touching and transcendent book of life.
This new edition contains an interview with Pirsig and letters and documents detailing how this extraordinary book came to be.
The most self righteous/pretentious thing I've read Was recommended this book, and was so disappointed. I hated every moment of it, wishing for it to end. But I still finished it.The best part is the narrative on the road with his son, the rest of the book, and 'philosophy' is rubbish. Pseudo intellectuals will love this book. Hipsters trying to be relevant will relish in it's self righteous nonsense.I didn't care for anything he was trying to 'discover', nor did I think it mattered. Really was just one giant wank fest for the writer.I haven't been this disappointed in a book in a long time.Read this. Then read it again decades later. In high school I would have told you this is my favorite book. I just re-read it 2 decades later. And I realize that I grasped about 20% of it at the time. Maybe. Something about the meandering philosophical flow captured my imagination at the time. But reading it now, as a father, I grasp the concepts underneath. I don't readily admit this but I wept at the end. Then I read the afterward and totally lost it. Beautiful, courageous work.
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