Book · 1974 · Fiction

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Name: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Author: Robert Pirsig

HarperPerennial Modern Classics · 430 pages

★ 6.9 editorial score

Seventeen days on a motorcycle carry a father and son from Minnesota to California while he works out what Quality means and recovers the man he was before electroshock erased him.

Genre

Autobiographical fiction Philosophical fiction

Medium

Novel

Subject

Buddhism Ethics Metaphysics Road trip

Setting

American West

Time

1974Depicts 1970s

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Quote · 1893

“Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.”

F.H. Bradley