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When Robert Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" was first published in 1974, it caused a literary sensation. An entire generation was profoundly affected by the story of the narrator, his son, Chris, and their month-long motorcycle odyssey from Minnesota to California. A combination of philosophical speculation and psychological tension, the book is a complex story of relationships, values, madness, and, eventually, enlightenment.
Ron Di Santo and Tom Steele have spent years investigating the background and underlying symbolism of Pirsig's work. Together, and with the approval of Robert Pirsig, they have written a fascinating reference/companion to the original.
"Guidebook to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" serves as a metaphorical backpack of supplies for the reader's journey through the original work. With the background material, insights, and perspectives the authors provide, "Guidebook to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" is destined to become required reading for new fans of the book as well as those who have returned to it over the years.
This chronology is almost altogether drawn from a very helpful footnote in Forrest B. Shearon's "Visual Imagery and Internal Awareness in Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," Kentucky Philological Association: Best Papers (1983), pp. 53-62. Read the first page
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Perhaps the best part of the guidebook is a reprint of a letter written by Pirsig to Robert Redford explaining his views on the book and how it could be turned into a film (thankfully never realised!).
This book _does_ provide some additional discussion of Pirsig's ideas, but I found the topics were better covered in Pirsig's second book: Lila (which, incidentally, documents the meeting with Redford that follows the aforementioned letter). Lila, being an extension of the ideas of Quality discussed in ZMM, forms a far better "guide" to ZMM than this book.
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