Tuesdays with Morrie de Mitch Albom

Date de parution : 01.2006
Format : Broché
Nombre de pages : 208
Résumé : Maybe it was a grandparent! or a teacher! or a colleague. Someone older! patient and wise! who understood you when you were young and searching! helped you see the world as a more profound place! gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom! that person was Morrie Schwartz! his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe! like Mitch! you lost track of this mentor as you made your way! and the insights faded! and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't you like to see that person again! ask the bigger questions that still haunt you! receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying! Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday! just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final "class": lessons in how to live. Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together! through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world. The Curriculum The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves.  The class met on Tuesdays. It began after breakfast. The subject was The Meaning of Life. It was taught from experience.   No grades were given, but there were oral exams each week. You were expected to respond to questions, and you were expected to pose questions of your own. You were also required to perform physical tasks now and then, such as lifting the professor's head to a comfortable spot on the pillow or placing his glasses on the bridge of his nose. Kissing him good-bye earned you extra credit.   No books were required, yet many topics were covered, including love, work, community, family, aging, forgiveness, and, finally, death. The last lecture was brief, only a few words.   A funeral was held in lieu of graduation.   Although no final exam was given, you were expected to produce one long paper on what was learned. That paper is presented here.   The last class of my old professor's life had only one student. I was the student. It is the late spring of 1979, a hot, sticky Saturday afternoon. Hundreds of us sit together, side by side, in rows of wooden folding chairs on the main campus lawn. We wear blue nylon robes. We listen impatiently to long speeches. When the ceremony is over, we throw our caps in the air, and we are officially graduated from college, the senior class of Brandeis University in the...