Strange Life of Ivan Osokin

by P D Ouspensky

Overview

Set in Moscow and Paris, Ouspensky's only full-length novel explores the theme of "eternal recurrence", a theory of time developed in Ouspensky's classic book A New Model of the Universe.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781774641903
Publisher:	Must Have Books
Publication date:	02/27/2021
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.28(d)

About the Author

Along with Aleister Crowley, Madame Blavatsky, and George Gurdjieff, P. D. Ouspensky (1878 –1947) ranked among the most important and influential figures in the occult movements of the 20th century. With such books as A New Model of the Universe, The Fourth Dimension, Tertium Organum, In Search of the Miraculous, and The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution, he earned a loyal following among those seeking a deeper knowledge of themselves and their lives, and of the meaning of human existence. Strange Life of Ivan Osokin was his only novel.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

1. The Parting
2. The Three Letters
3. The Man in the Dark Blue Overcoat
4. The End of the Romance
5. At the Magician's
6. Morning
7. Thoughts
8. The Past
9. A Dream
10. The Schoolboy
11. Mother
12. Monday
13. Reality and the Fairy Tale
14. Punished
15. Boredom
16. Zeus
17. The School Sanatorium
18. At Home
19. Tanechka
20. Uncle
21. The Devil's Mechanics
22. Paris
23. Zinaida
24. The Inevitable
25. A Winter's Day
26. The Turn of the Wheel
27. On the Threshold
Conclusion
About the Author

Editorial Reviews

A brilliant fantasy ... written to illustrate the theme that we do not live life but that life lives us.

Manchester Guardian

Through confronting the deepest mysteries of time, Ouspensky's novel offers a profoundly contemporary and inspired vision of our common alienation from ourselves and of the one possibility of returning to what we are meant to be. (Jacob Needleman, author of The American Soul)

Jacob Needleman

Some books are little-known, yet have a vast influence. Ouspensky's seminal work has set off shivers of recognition that have res­onated for a century—even to the point of inspiring the Hollywood film ‘Ground Hog Day'. It's unsettling, and mysterious, as literature probing the secrets of reality itself should be. (John Shirley, author of Demons and Darkness Divided)

John Shirley