The Spiritual Journey of
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Park Street Press
Rochester, VA
242 pgs.
$21.95
ISBN: 978-159477173-6
Though I have written these memoirs in novelistic style all the people, places, events, books, and quotations by sages are real. I was
raised by a merchant father. All the wisdom he had to offer could me could be summed up in two proverbs: “Buy low and sell high” and “Don’t believe in
anything.”
Alajandro
Jordoworksky…what images that name invokes in the mind of any lover of film.
Now, the director of such classics El Topo
and Holy Mountain, now has an
autobiography. Here we have everything about Jordoworsky that you always wanted
to know, but didn’t have the opportunity to ask. I don’t know what to say about
this book, except to ask myself if I made the right choice in purchasing it.
Okay, I read a lot of
biographies and a lot of autobiographies, and in a sense, I just left with the
image that these are all fiction. I think its like from that old TV show with
that Fonzi guy; I think he said that “Bullshit makes the world go around”. That
is my sentiment toward both autobiographies and biographies. So, you may want to
ask, why is this autobiography so different? Well, my answer is, simply put,
this is Jodorowsky’s journey through the metaphysics of his life. And that what
makes it special. Now the actual writing? Let’s just say it could be better.
But as a document about one of the most remarkable filmmakers of the twentieth
century, this book is a must read. So if you have the chance and are so
inclined as to purchase a copy of The Spiritual Journey of Alejandro
Jodorowsky, I will tell you to do so, because
the book chronicles the remarkable journey of a remarkable artist.
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