Ivan Osokin, the outsider, has been crossed in love and thrown out of military school and has lost a fortune. He drags himself to a magician and confesses: "I cannot go on."
After asking to be sent back in time so that he might "do everything differently ... live in a new way", Osokin finds the
past repeating itself: to his dismay he is chained to a wheel of eternal recurrence.
How can he free himself? There is a way, says the magician, but
he warns Osokin: "Very powerful forces will be opposed to you and you will be alone, always alone. Remember this." The
young man, however, thirsts for the 'great secret'. Yet is he prepared to sacrifice his life in order to find it?
This is the only full-length novel, first published in 1947, the year of his death, by P. D. Ouspensky, the Russian thinker and collaborator with Gurdjieff - a haunting fantasy on the theme
that we do not live life; rather, life lives us.
- Autor: Piotr Demianowicz Uspienski
- Kategoria: fantastyka, fantasy, science fiction
- Język: angielski
- ISBN: 0140190589
- Data wydania: 1987-01-01
- Liczba stron: 162
- Ocena: 0,0
- Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books
