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The Book of the Book

The Book of the Book is a book by Idries Shah. The majority of the book's 200 pages are blank, with the remaining nine pages telling the story of a book left by a wise man consisting of one sentence and attempts over hundreds of years to discern the intended meaning.

The Book of the Book
First edition
AuthorIdries Shah
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SubjectSufism
Published1969
PublisherOctagon Press
Media typePrint (Paperback & eBook).
Pages278
ISBN9781784790783
OCLC16228770
Preceded byThe Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin 
Followed byWisdom of the Idiots 

Critical reception edit

Lawrence Paul Elwell-Sutton writing for The New York Review of Books said, "I suppose his admirers among the Hampstead intelligentsia will have swallowed this buffoonery with the same enthusiasm with which they have gulped down the rest."[1]

Doris Lessing responded to Elwell-Sutton's remarks, in the New York Review of Books, stating "Ignorance, I will admit, is no crime, and I am sure that Dr. Elwell-Sutton does not claim to be a literary man. But motivation has its mysteries."

A review in Studies in Comparative Religion stated "The Book of the Book, which purports to be an object lesson in the problem of the container and the content, consists of some fifteen pages of print bound together with over 250 blank pages".[2]

References edit

  1. ^ Elwell-Sutton, L. P.; Lessing, Doris (July 2, 1970). "The Mysterious East". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2017-01-21.
  2. ^ R.N.J.A. (Summer 1970). "The Book of the Book by Idries Shah" (PDF). Studies in Comparative Religion. 4 (3). World Wisdom, Inc. Retrieved 2017-01-22.

External links edit

  • The Book of the Book at google books
  • The Idries Shah Foundation
  • Free Online Read

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