Monsieur Gurdjieff
Paris, Seuil, 1954.
1 vol. (135 x 190 mm) of 519 p. Beige cloth, title-piece, original wrappers preserved.
First edition. One of the copies stamped as a review copy.
Signed presentation inscription: “à Jef Kessel, son ami, Louis Pauwels.”
Signed presentation inscription: “à Jef Kessel, son ami, Louis Pauwels.”
Louis Pauwels’ first major work, Monsieur Gurdjieff explores the life and teachings of the mysterious Greek-Armenian thinker Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (1872–1949), a central figure of Western esotericism blending Sufism, Eastern mysticism and depth psychology. Fascinated by Gurdjieff’s world, Pauwels here deploys a documented style of writing, an antechamber to the manifesto of “fantastic” thought that would become Le Matin des magiciens, published with Jacques Bergier in 1960.
Editor-in-chief of the newspaper Combat, where he would succeed Albert Camus, Pauwels went on to found Le Figaro Magazine in 1978.
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