Santiago Vilas

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Excitement While Dying (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

In essence, this novel challenges the readers conceptual perception of the here and there. Upon unexpectedly being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and sentenced to die in three months, the protagonist makes a rare commitment. Instead of lamenting and crying for his bad fortune, he decides to search for credible answers to fundamental questions and anxieties when facing deathfrom the accuracy of the medical diagnosis to where he will go after death, to which documents to prepare for his family, and how to get spiritually ready to die. In his three months of waiting to die, he had a visit to a cemetery at midnight, an insight on domestic violence when he accidentally meets a woman, his modern interpretation of concepts such as euthanasia and pedophilia, and he defied the usual medical warning to patients in losing their desire for intimacy when diagnosed with terminal cancer. A reader, whether healthy or in a situation similar to the protagonists, may identify with one or two of the causes of his anguish, while another may embrace all of the above. A few samples are as follows: Who is dying? The me I created and know or the me created by some supreme entity? I cannot be prostrated. I cannot accept to be dead until after I have died. Ubi sunt? Where are they, those who were before us? Feeling loneliness becomes pleasant when shared with someone. Assisted suicide is an insult to the patients personal integrity. Say last therapy. I am dying; thus, dying is not my main concern but rather whether I am convinced of being ready to die. Money is the number one cause of corruption, but I see that the United States honors it by printing the motto In God we trust on all dollar bills. We die today in ways quite different from how we used to die some decades ago.

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Autor

Santiago Vilas was a professional journalist in his native Spain. He came to the United States of America as a press correspondent and remained as a professor of languages and literatures. He taught at several universities and received his PhD degree from Louisiana State University. He was elected member of three honor societies: the academic Phi Kappa Phi and, in languages and literatures, Sigma Delta Pi and Phi Sigma Iota (of which he was later voted international president and executive director). He published six books in two languages, among them the now classic El Humor y la Literatura Española Contemporánea (Humor and Spanish Contemporary Literature), where he formulates the thesis of humor as a philosophy of living; the college textbook España: Cultura y Civilización; the college textbook adaptation of the masterpiece of the theater of the absurd Tres Sombreros de Copa by Miguel Mihura; and the medical study Prostate Cancer Is Curable.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781514450970
• Artikelnr.: 52599558