One of the most striking and unusual works of English-language literature of the twentieth century, included in the list of 50 cult books of all time and peoples according to the version of “Daily Telegraph”.
It brought Robert Persig the status of a sign writer of his generation. Articles were written about him, he was discussed, they argued about him. It simply has no analogues in modern literature.
We are talking about the book “Zen and the art of caring for a motorcycle”, which revived in the second half of the 20th century the genre of the “philosophical novel-travel” of the age of the XVIII.
In the novel by Robert Persig, everything is unusual – even the name of the protagonist, philosopher -motorcyclist, immediately refers the reader to the topic of the “dialogs” of Plato and his idea of knowing the truth in disputes. But the theme of the novel itself is even more non -standard: we live in rational time, and we are not given to change this. However, how to combine the rationalism of time with the idealism of creative principle? Perhaps the search for a new philosophical theory, combining the traditions of the West and the East? ..
Author
Pirsig Robert
Translator
Nemtsov Maxim Vladimirovich
Publisher
AST, 2014
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