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Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson — G. I. Gurdjieff

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Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

Рассказы Вельзевула своему внуку / Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

Retrato de G. I. Gurdjieff, 1925
byG. I. Gurdjieff

First series of All and Everything. Beelzebub, a cosmic being travelling on the ship Karnak, tells his grandson Hassein what he observed on Earth over centuries: the history of a humanity that, through a cosmic accident and the atrophy of an organ that let it see reality, lives ruled by vanity, self-love and suggestibility. Beneath outsized humour and an invented vocabulary, the book sets out a complete cosmology—the law of three, the law of seven, the reciprocal feeding of everything that exists—and a relentless critique of religion, science, art and war. Gurdjieff wanted it read three times and in different ways.

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Authorship note

Written in Russian and Armenian between 1924 and c. 1935; Gurdjieff supervised the English translation (with A. R. Orage and other pupils) and prepared the edition in 1949. Published posthumously in 1950. A 1992 revision of the translation was controversial among his followers.

Editions and translations

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English

  • Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: Typescript Facsimile — G. I. Gurdjieff

    Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: Typescript Facsimile

    Book Studio, 2020

    ISBN 9780957248144

    Facsímil del mecanoscrito.

  • Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: The Revised 1931 Manuscript

    Little Crow Press, 2019

    ISBN 9780996629942

    Versión mecanografiada de 1931, anterior a la revisión publicada en 1950.

  • Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson — G. I. Gurdjieff

    Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

    Jeremy P. Tarcher / Penguin, 2006

    ISBN 9781585424573

  • Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson — G. I. Gurdjieff

    Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

    Penguin Books (Reino Unido), 2000

    ISBN 9780141956343

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  • Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: All and Everything — G. I. Gurdjieff

    Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: All and Everything

    Penguin Arkana / Penguin Compass, 1999

    ISBN 9780140194739

    Primera edición en un solo volumen en rústica; restituye la traducción de 1950.

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  • Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson — G. I. Gurdjieff

    Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

    E. P. Dutton, 1973

    ISBN 9780525473480

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  • All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

    Harcourt, Brace (Nueva York) / Routledge & Kegan Paul (Londres), 1950

    Primera edición.

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  • Беседы Вельзевула со своим внуком

    АСТ, 2003

    ISBN 9785170154609

Other works by G. I. Gurdjieff

Sources

  • Gurdjieff, G. I. All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson. Nueva York: Harcourt, Brace, 1950; Londres: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1950.

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