A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk’s True Lifethe Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 3: 1952-1960 (Revised) ( Journals of Thomas Merton, 3 ) (1ST ed.)

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The third volume of Trappist monk Thomas Merton's "journals" chronicles his struggle to reconcile his celebrity as an author and peace activist with his desire for a life of silence and contemplation and also his conflicts with monastic routine, and his exploration of Zen, existentialism, Marxism, and Latin American culture. Index.