Translated by Anne Sullivan and Thierry Guillemin
Foreword by Roger Lipsey
 
François Grunwald, a renowned psychiatrist and tireless seeker of truth born in Vienna in 1917, was a fighter for Free France during World War II, a student of G.I. Gurdjieff after the war and became a leader of Gurdjieff groups in Germany.    The present book is the translation of the third part of the autobiography published in France in 2017, which centers on Grunwald's encounter and work with G.I. Gurdjieff and his circle of pupils in Paris after World War II and until Gurdjieff's death in 1949. It is likely to be the last direct eyewitness account of this extraordinary time of spiritual search. (From the book jacket)
 
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"'His large black eyes with their extraordinary expression seemed to be questioning me...They revealed a serenity from which radiated intense affliction, a sort of sacred sorrow, along with an ironic malice....'"So runs the startling description by François Grunwald of his first encounter with G.I. Gurdjieff. One notes similar unexpected insights and a steady dedication to truth throughout as Grunwald transports readers into the turbulent France of last century, illuminating not only Gurdjieff and his Work but other notables including Mme. de Salzmann and Henriette Lannes."
--Jeff Zaleski, publisher and editor of Parabola