The Myth of wu Tao-Tzu [Audiobook] download free by Sven Lindqvist
- Listen audiobook: The Myth of wu Tao-Tzu
- Author: Sven Lindqvist
- Release date: 2014/3/18
- Publisher: GRANTA BOOKS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9781847085221
- Rating: 9.03 of 10
- Votes: 72
- Review by: Cullen Richey
- Review rating: 8.56 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/7
- Duration: 1H32M32S in 256 kbps (25.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-07
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, FLAC, AC3, WMA, WAV, MP3 (compression AZW4, AZW3, RAR, TAR.XZ, ZIP, AZW, ALZ)
- Total pages original book: 128
- Includes a PDF summary of 15 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 10M43S (3 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: During the Tang dynasty, the Chinese artist Wu Tao-tzu was one day standing looking at a mural he had just completed. Suddenly, he clapped his hands and the temple gate opened. He went into his work and the gates closed behind him.' Thus begins Sven Lindqvist's profound meditation on art and its relationship with life, first published in 1967, and a classic in his home country - it has never been out of print. As a young man, Sven Lindqvist was fascinated by the myth of Wu Tao-tzu, and by the possibility of entering a work of art and making it a way of life. He was drawn to artists and writers who shared this vision, especially Hermann Hesse, in his novel Glass Bead Game. Partly inspired by Hesse's work, Lindqvist lived in China for two years, learning classical calligraphy from a master teacher. There he was drawn deeper into the idea of a life of artistic perfectionism and retreat from the world. But when he left China for India and then Afghanistan, and saw the grotesque effects of poverty and extreme inequality, Lindqvist suffered a crisis of confidence and started to question his ideas about complete immersion in art at the expense of a proper engagement with life.The Myth of Wu Tao-tzu takes us on a fascinating journey through a young man's moral awakening and his grappling with profound questions of aesthetics. It contains the bracing moral anger, and poetic, intensely atmospheric travel writing Lindqvist's readers have come to love.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Autobiography: Literary, Memoirs, Contemporary Fiction, History Of Ideas, Guidebooks, Philosophy
- Download servers: BitShare, 4Shared, Sync.com, Google Drive, Mediafire. Compressed in AZW4, AZW3, RAR, TAR.XZ, ZIP, AZW, ALZ
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 12.69 USD
- Dimensions: 137x216x8.89mm
- Weight: 127.01g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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