by Carlos Castaneda · Christian Bourgois Editeur · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782267003970
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«L'herbe du diable et la petite fumée» is Carlos Castaneda's initiation account, published by Christian Bourgois in paperback (259 pp., in French).
Carlos Castaneda, an anthropology student, narrates his encounter with don Juan Matus, a Yaqui shaman from Sonora, and the apprenticeship he begins with him. Through dialogues and sacred plants such as peyote, the author enters a path of knowledge that challenges ordinary perception and leads him to experiences of fear, clarity, and power.
First volume of the series «The Teachings of Don Juan» by Carlos Castaneda. The work was originally published in English in 1968; this French edition is from 1984.
For readers interested in shamanism, anthropology, and spirituality; a classic work that marked an entire generation of seekers of knowledge.
Carlos Castaneda was a Peruvian-American writer, trained as an anthropologist. Starting in 1968, Castaneda published a series of books that describe alleged training in shamanism that he received under the tutelage of a Yaqui "Man of Knowledge" named Don Juan Matus. While Castaneda's work was accepted as factual by many when the books were first published, the character of Don Juan and the training he described is now generally considered to be fabricated and to have little relation to the actual cultural practices of the Yaqui. Castaneda's early writings featuring Don Juan were bestsellers with the general public, and are considered to be a significant influence on neoshamanism and the New Age movement more broadly.
