Peter G. Tripodes

Broschiertes Buch

FESTIVAL IN THERMA

Beschreibung

Festival in Therma is a moving collection of stories that attempts to find the past and try to make sense of it by renewing connections with the culture of the Aegean islands, to experience that which seems lost for following generations in America. The stories in Origins are told with the haunting sadness at having come to this journey late to puzzle out the meaning and the displacements of one's ancestor's lives. The mystery of time passing is poignant and at times told with humor at the odd turns such a journey takes. The quirky stories in Encounters are Beckett-like in their sense of irony and subtle humor as they deal with the existential dilemmas in human interactions, which echo that sense of lost connections in modern day America.

Autor

Peter Tripodes is a second generation immigrant both of whose parents were born in the tiny island Ikaria in the Aegean Sea, and who maintained in America the ways of the island as best they could. One aspect of maintaining the island's ways was that no one in the household spoke English and, as a consequence, Peter Tripodes spoke only Greek until the age of six when he began to learn English from other children who were not Greek, a circumstance that created in him a lifelong interest in the study of the structure of language as it pertains to how one comes to understand spoken and written speech. His other interests include the study of the structure of reasoning as it is dealt with in philosophy and mathematics, two fields in which he earned advanced degrees. He is presently retired and lives in Venice, California.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Birchwood Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 311g
• ISBN-13: 9780996515320
• ISBN-10: 0996515321
• Artikelnr.: 48941249