by Thomas Merton · Garzanti · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788811520405
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«La montagna dalle sette balze» is the spiritual autobiography of Thomas Merton, published by Garzanti in paperback (502 pages, in Italian).
First-person account in which Thomas Merton evokes his literary and secular youth in New York, his conversion to Catholicism and his entry into a monastery in Kentucky. The book combines personal memoir and reflection on faith, religious vocation and the search for meaning.
Work originally published in 1948 as «The Seven Storey Mountain»; this 1990 Italian edition was translated by A. Castelli.
For readers interested in spiritual autobiography, Catholic spirituality and monastic life.
Thomas Merton, religious name M. Louis, was an American Trappist monk, theologian, mystic, poet, and social activist. He was a professed member of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, near Bardstown, Kentucky, living there from 1941 to his death.
