P.D.Ouspensky

Strange Life of Ivan Osokin

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“If I had my life to live over again” … Well, what would you do? Here is the story of Ivan Osokin, a young man who has squandered every chance life has given him. A failure at school, ruined financially, and rejected by the woman he loves, he finds himself at a dead end. He wishes to live his life over again so he can avoid all his mistakes. Then he meets a magician who gives him that chance. Strange Life of Ivan Osokin is a gripping, cinematic story by the great Russian philosopher P.D. Ouspensky. In his classic novel, set in the last years of Tsarist Russia, Ouspensky explores imaginatively one of the chief themes in his philosophical work: the idea of “eternal recurrence.” This is the fascinating idea, which also engaged Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, that we live our lives over and over again in a kind of endlessly repeating film, and that nothing will change in this ceaseless whirligig, unless we ourselves change-deeply and fundamentally.
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177 printed pages
Original publication
2018
Publication year
2018
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  • anasofiasfhas quoted3 years ago
    the whole of life is a petty struggle with petty difficulties
  • anasofiasfhas quoted3 years ago
    Life is not particularly pleasant for anyone.
  • anasofiasfhas quoted3 years ago
    If only I could begin again from the beginning! I know now that I should do everything differ ently.

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