Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert M. Pirsig
- First Published: 1974
- Time of Work: 1968, with reflections encompassing 1943 to 1974
- Setting: The western United States
- Principal Characters: Robert Pirsig, Phaedrus, Chris, John
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Values, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Traveling or travelers, Philosophy or philosophers, Mental illness, Fathers, Thought or thinking, Machinery, Motorcycles or motorbikes, Maintenance or repair
- Locales: United States
Form and Content
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance begins as a narrative account of a motorcycle trip that author Robert Pirsig took with his son Chris. It quickly becomes much more than a travel narrative, however, although it is replete with descriptions of the roads traveled and natural wonders observed along the way. The geography of the trip is carefully documented as well, so that it is not difficult to plot the trip along a standard road map.
The book is divided into four parts, with each part subdivided into chapters of various lengths. Sometimes...
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