My Guru & His Disciple (38 page)

Meanwhile, my life is still beautiful to me—beautiful because of Don, because of the enduring fascination of my efforts to describe my life experience in my writing, because of my interest in the various predicaments of my fellow travelers on this journey. How I wish I were able to reassure them that all is ultimately well—particularly those who are quite certain that it isn't; that life is meaningless and unjust! I can't reassure them, because I can't speak with the absolute authority of a knower.

All I can offer them is this book, which I have written about matters I only partially understand, in the hope that it may somehow, to some readers, reveal glimpses of inner truth which remain hidden from its author.

Books by Christopher Isherwood

NOVELS

A Meeting by the River

A Single Man

Down There on a Visit

The World in the Evening

Prater Violet

Goodbye to Berlin

The Last of Mr. Norris

(
English title:
Mr. Norris Changes Trains)

The Memorial

All the Conspirators

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

My Guru and His Disciple

Christopher and His Kind

Kathleen and Frank

Lions and Shadows

BIOGRAPHY

Ramakrishna and His Disciples

PLAYS
(
with W. H. Auden
)

On the Frontier

The Ascent of F6

The Dog beneath the Skin

TRAVEL

The Condor and the Cows

Journey to a War (
with W. H. Auden
)

COLLECTION

Exhumations

TRANSLATIONS

The Intimate Journals of Charles Baudelaire

(
and the following with Swami Prabhavananda
)

The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali

Shankara's Crest-Jewel of Discrimination

The Bhagavad-Gita

 

Copyright © 1980 by Christopher Isherwood

All rights reserved

Library of Congress catalog card number: 80-638

Published in Canada by Collins Publishers, Toronto

eISBN 9781466853300

First eBook edition: August 2013