Item #26885 Jean Toomer's Years with Gurdjieff: Portrait of an Artist 1923-1936. Gurdjieff, Rudolph P. Byrd.

Jean Toomer's Years with Gurdjieff: Portrait of an Artist 1923-1936.

Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. The author traces author Jean Toomer's literary decline, after his exploration of African-American roots in his book "Cane", as he became more involved in the theories and teachings of George Gurdjieff from 1924 into the 1930s. Toomer was hailed as a fresh and important African-American literary voice in the early Twenties but never fulfilled his true potential as a writer once he turned to writing on behalf of Gurdjieff's philosophy. Item #26885
ISBN: 0820312487

Price: $45.00

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