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A Search for Solitude Vol. 3

Pursuing the Monk's True LifeThe Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 3: 1952-1960

A Search for Solitude( )
Author: Merton, Thomas
ISBN:978-0-06-065479-5
Publication Date:Aug 1997
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $29.95
Book Description:

The third volume of Thomas Merton's journals chronicles Merton's attempts to reconcile his desire for solitude and contemplation with the demands of his new-found celebrity status within the strictures of conventional monastic life.

Book Details
Pages:496
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Religious
Religion / Monasticism
Psychology / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):14.1 x 19.5 x 2.6 cm
Book Weight:0.33 Kilograms
Author Biography
Merton, Thomas (Author)
Born in France, Thomas Merton was the son of an American artist and poet and her New Zealander husband, a painter. Merton lost both parents before he had finished high school, and his younger brother was killed in World War II. Something of the ephemeral character of human endeavor marked all his works, deepening the pathos of his writings and drawing him close to Eastern, especially Buddhist, forms of monasticism.

After an initial education in the United States, France, and England, he completed his undergraduate degree at Columbia University. His parents, nominally friends, had given him little religious guidance, and in 1938, he converted to Roman Catholicism. The following year he received an M.A. from Columbia University and in 1941, he entered Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky, where he remained until a short time before his death.

His working life was spent as a Trappist monk. At Gethsemani, he wrote his famous autobiography, "The Seven Storey Mountain" (1948); there he labored and prayed through the days and years of a constant regimen that began with daily prayer at 2:00 a.m. As his contemplative life developed, he still maintained contact with the outside world, his many books and articles increasing steadily as the years went by. Reading them, it is hard to think of him as only a "guilty bystander," to use the title of one of his many collections of essays. He was vehement in his opposition to the Vietnam War, to the nuclear arms race, to racial oppression.

Having received permission to leave his monastery, he went on a journey to confer with mystics of the Hindu and Buddhist traditions. He was accidentally electrocuted in a hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, on December 10, 1968.

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