Phaedrus takes a motorcycle trip with Chris, his eleven-year-old son. As they travel the roads of the United States, the art of motorcycle maintenance becomes a beautiful metaphor of how to combine the cold and rational technological world and the warm and imaginative world of art. As in Zen, it is a matter of concentrating, observing and appreciating the details, until it merges with one's own activity, whether it is a trek through the woods, writing an essay, or straining a motorcycle chain. The journey, understood as the seductive longing to travel around the world but also as an interior journey, serves Pirsig to guide the reader in the philosophical questions of art and technology, value and utility, dialectics and rhetoric, Guided by the winks of the road and the roads. In Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, the daily care of the mechanical parts, their correct functioning and the necessary balance of the parts that make up the whole enclose the history of Western philosophy from the eyes of the East, and Pirsig manages to conciliate Both looks. The magic of this novel, which marked millions of readers around the world, resides in its ability to captivate the reader through an endearing story while exploring our philosophical heritage, from Socrates to Kant, with the valuable counterweight of the eastern currents.