In
1924, at the age of eleven, Fritz Peters first met Gurdjieff, Newly available
from Eureka Booksellers
three books in one bound book:
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Boyhood With Gurdjieff
Gurdjieff Remembered
Balanced Man
Fritz Peters, with a preface by Henry Miller
Published by Bardic Press, euro 40.00
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“… a highly
delectable book… Not only is it full of amazing anecdotes, it is also
full of wisdom…
I have read the book several times myself and each time with renewed
interest.
In a way of speaking I regard it as something on a par with Alice in
Wonderland,
a real treasure of our literature.”
Henry Miller
“…devastatingly
funny child’s eyes vignettes…”
James Moore, author of Gurdjieff: a Biography
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In
1924, at the age of eleven, Fritz Peters first met Gurdjieff, the great master who introduced the West to the teachings of
the Fourth Way.
Boyhood with
Gurdjieff covers Fritz Peters’ time as a
young troublemaker at Gurdjieff’s Institute in Fontainebleau,
France. Gurdjieff’s unconventional yet strangely logical behavior
made him the only adult who made sense to Fritz Peters.
In a series of brilliantly told anecdotes, Peters relates
Gurdjieff’s impromptu and surprising responses to the
day-to-day problems of the Institute.
In Gurdjieff
Remembered, Peters describes his adult encounters
with Gurdjieff from 1932 to 1947. As an adult, Peters is more
circumspect about Gurdjieff, but Gurdjieff still makes a huge
impression on him as a man who lives in the present, heedless
of the opinions of others.
Peters’ third and final book about Gurdjieff, the
rare Balanced Man,
which has never before been published in the USA, looks back at
the previous two books, and to the future of Gurdjieff’s teaching.
This limited edition hardcover (300 copies) for the
first time includes
all three of Fritz Peters' books on Gurdjieff, which have been long
out of print. Also included in this Bardic Press edition is a preface
by Henry Miller, the author of Tropic
of Capricorn and
Tropic of Cancer, and an
index. The cover illustration is a
previously unpublished painting by Gregory Blann.
Published January 2005 by Bardic Press. Hardcover,
372 pages, ISBN 0-9745667-6-4,
Available from Eureka Editions
euro 40.00