BBT - Useful Links

Shown below are various sites which may provide useful material for understanding Beelzebub's Tales and how this book came to be.

The ALL and Everything International Humanities Conference website: The conference is an international forum for the presentation and discussion of studies associated with the exploration of G. I. Gurdjieff’s work and legacy and in particular his writings.  These events generally produce a number of well researched papers on different topics related to the book, robust discussions, and an opportunity for students of Gurdjieff's ideas to meet and share their experiences.

Gurdjieff International Review "All and Everything - Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson" This page contains links to Reviews and commentaries on the Tales by A. L. Staveley, Denis Saurat, J. G. Bennett and others.

Mr. Nyland’s Index to Beelzebub’s Tales"  - This page describes the origin and unique approach to the creation of an index to the tales developed by Willem Nyland's group. Quoting from the page, "Mr. Nyland’s Index differs in its fundamental approach to Beelzebub. In its selection of words, phrases, cross-references and annotations, it is to be prized as an externalization of Willem A. Nyland’s deep understanding of, and insights into, Gurdjieff’s writings."

Guide and Index to “Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson” This is a link to a page at Traditional Studies Press which gives a description of the guide and index.

Pronunciation of approximately 685 words used in Beelzebub's Tales. See the accompanying alphabetical recordings and lists below (docx and xlsx) with time stamps for finding the pronunciation of a particular word. 
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq3CefENhcc

 

Links about the different versions:

Beelzebub's Tales: An analysis of the publishing history of Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson   "This page is an effort to bring to the attention of interested readers the degree of revision that has occurred in G.I. Gurdjieff’s most well known book, Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, since its first publication in 1950... This revision [the 1992 Arkana edition], undertaken under the direction of Jeanne de Salzmann by unidentified members of Gurdjieff groups in New York and Paris, contains substantial changes to both content and presentation." The page goes on to give several examples of the changes to the 1950 edition appearing in the 1992 Arkana edition.

The Making of All and Everything: 1924 to 1950 by Paul Beekman Taylor  -  A detailed and quite interesting history of how the Tales came to be, with insights into the 1992 Penguin/Arkana edition.