Jeremy Fox

Scenes from Life (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Scenes from Life is a collection of stories and vignette set in a variety of countries. They describe encounters with people and with the often strange worlds they -and we- inhabit. Some of those brushes are the stuff of adventure.Two involve the author's close encounters with death. There are tales of human kindness, but also of cruelty. One is a narrative told to the author by a survivor of the Holocaust. All accounts in the collection are true in that they are taken from life and are a record of memory and occasional field notes. As many truths exist as there are people to express them. They are ways of being in and seeing the world. Had someone else encountered the experiences and the characters that appear in this book, they would have written them differently, or perhaps not written them at all and either consigned them to capricious anecdote or to oblivion. So the sense in which these tales are true is necessarily the author's. They are offered to you, the reader in the hope that you will find in them some meaning of your own. As Thoreau observed: "Nothing was ever so unfamiliar and startling to a man as his own thoughts." We are alien first to ourselves.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Editorial Bubok Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9788468585215
• Artikelnr.: 72270230

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Fox es autor de las novelas The Chocolate Man (1995) y Conquest (2021). Traductor que maneja fluidamente, además de su inglés nativo, el español, el portugués y el francés; su carrera en las letras incluye la dramaturgia y la escritura por encargo. Fox también ha sido editor de revistas y libros, periodista, profesor universitario, director artístico de una compañía de teatro, funcionario del British Council y consultor de gestión. El autor de En busca del padre Alfons Roig Izquierdo se educó en las universidades de Oxford y Londres y en la Escuela de Administración de Cranfield. En su hoja de vida constan sus títulos en Idiomas Modernos, Estudios Latinoamericanos (Historia e Historia Económica) y Negocios.