Bibliography

 

"To write my book for conscious man would be easy, but to write it for donkeys—very hard."
G. I. Gurdjieff

By Gurdjieff, G. I.

Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson 
Meetings with Remarkable Men 
Life Is Real Only Then, When "I Am" 
The Herald of Coming Good: First Appeal to Contemporary Humanity 

Quote from the opening frontispiece of the first series:

Ten Books in Three Series

FIRST SERIES: Three books under the title of "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man".

SECOND SERIES: Two books under the common title of "Meetings with Remarkable Men".

THIRD SERIES: Five Books under the title of "Life is Real Only Then, When "I Am" ".

All written according to entirely new principles of logical reasoning and directed toward the accomplishment of the following three fundamental tasks:

FIRST SERIES: To destroy, mercilessly and without any compromise whatever, in the mentation and feelings of the reader, the beliefs and views, by centuries rooted in him, about everything existing in the world.

SECOND SERIES: To acquaint the reader with the material required for a new creation and to prove the soundness and good quality of it.

THIRD SERIES: To assist the arising, in the mentation and in the feelings of the reader, of a veritable, nonfantastic representation not of that illusory world which he now perceives, but of the world existing in reality.

Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson - An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man
The original translation of 1238 pages, first published in 1950 by Harcourt, Brace & Company (New York); Routledge & Kegan Paul (London). Copyright 1950 by G. Gurdjieff. This translation was made under the personal direction of the author, by a group of translators chosen by him and specially trained according to their defined individualities. Later published in 1964 by E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., Library of Congress No. 50-5848. Again published in 1973 by E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. in paperback (3 volumes), SBN 0-525-47348-3, 0-525-47349-1, 0-525-47350-5. Then published in 1993 by Two Rivers Press. Again published in 1999 by Penguin Arkana, a paperback which contains correction of errata and insertion of two paragraphs omitted from page 568 of Chapter 32 "Hypnotism" in earlier editions.

A revised translation of 1135 pages, first published in 1992 by Arkana, an imprint of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc. Copyright Triangle Editions, Inc. 1992, ISBN 0-670-84125-0. This revision was begun on the initiative of Jeanne de Salzmann. The translation team included members of the Gurdjieff Foundation of New York, aided by members of the Gurdjieff Society (London) and the Institut Gurdjieff (Paris), as well as Triangle Editions.

Meetings with Remarkable Men

First published in the USA 1963 by E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 201 Park Ave. South, New York, NY. Copyright 1963 by Editions Janus. Written in Russian, the manuscript of this book was begun in 1927 and revised by the author over a period of many years. The first english translation by A. R. Orage has been revised and reworked from the Russian for this publication.

Life Is Real Only Then, When "I Am"

Copyright 1975, 1978 by Triangle Editions, Inc. Published in the United States 1981 by Elsevier-Dutton Publishing Company, Inc. 2 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 81-65602, ISBN: 0-525-14547-8. Published simultaneously in Canada by Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, Toronto and Vancouver.

Views from the Real World - Early Talks of Gurdjieff

Early talks in Moscow, Essentuki, Tiflis, Berlin, London, Paris, New York, and Chicago as recollected by his pupils. Copyright 1973 by Triangle Editions, Inc. Published in the United States in 1973 by E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., New York. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 73-10482, ISBN: 0-525-22870-5. Published simultaneously in Canada by Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, Toronto and Vancouver.

By P. D. Ouspensky

In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching (1949) New York.

The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution (1st ed., 1950; 2nd ed. 1974, enlarged, New York: Vintage Press)

By Jean Vaysse

Toward Awakening, Far West Press, San Francisco.

By Thomas and Olga de Hartmann

Our Life With Mr. Gurdjieff (1972) New York: Penguin Arkana

By Jacob Needleman and George Baker

Gurdjieff: Essays and Reflections on the Man and His Teaching, (1996) New York: Continuum Press

By John Pentland

Exchanges Within: Questions from Everyday Life Selected from Gurdjieff Group Meetings with John Pentland in California, (1997) New York: Continuum Press

By C. S. Nott 

Teachings of Gurdjieff: The Journal of a Pupil
 (1961) Samuel Weiser, New York

By Maurice Nicoll 

Commentaries on the Teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky Vol. 1-6
(1952) Vincent Stuart Ltd., London

By Jean Vaysse 

Toward Awakening: An approach to the Teaching left by Gurdjieff
(1979) Harper & Row, San Francisco

By Peters, Fritz
Boyhood with Gurdjieff (1964) New York: E.P. Dutton & Co.

By Orage, Alfred R.
On Love & Psychological Exercises (1998) York Beach: Samuel Weiser.

By Moore, James
Gurdjieff: the Anatomy of a Myth (1991) Element Books Ltd, 415P.

By Daumal, René
Mount Analogue: An Authentic Narrative (1959) London: Vincent Stuart; A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing (1960) New York: Pantheon; (1974) San Francisco: City Lights Books; (1975) Baltimore: Penguin Books

By Conge, Michel

Inner Octaves. Toronto: Dolmen Meadow Editions, 2007.

By Lannes, Henriette

This Fundamental Quest: The Journey of a Pupil of G. I. Gurdjieff. San Francisco: Far West Institute, 2003.

By Ravindra, Ravi

Heart Without Measure: Gurdjieff Work with Madame de Salzmann. Sandpoint: Morning Light Press, 2004.

Film and Video

Meetings With Remarkable Men.  Directed by Peter Brook, Enterprise Pictures Ltd, 1979. DVD. NY: Parabola Video, 1997.

Music

Gurdjieff/de Hartmann Music for the Piano
Volume I: Asian Songs and Rhythms
Volume II: Music of the Sayyids and the Dervishes
Volume III: Hymns, Prayers and Rituals
Volume IV: Hymns from a Great Temple and other Selected Works

George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann (composers)
Laurence Rosenthal - Linda Daniel-Spitz - Charles Ketcham (editors, pianists)

CD. Wergo Recordings. Mainz, Germany:1997.
Sheet Music. Schott Music International. Mainz, Germany, London, et al.:2005.