Nostos: An Autobiography
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (776 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1901866688 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 720 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-19 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The author feels he was lost and this is a narrative describing how he fights his way to a kind of rest at the heart of things as they terribly and resplendently are. This volume give biographical grounding to the early mythical philosophical works of John Moriarty.
Maddening, mystifying, mythical apologia pro vita sua One of the longest and certainly one of the most diffused books I have read. It reminds me of other Irish eccentrics, Denis Johnston and Francis Stuart, who also kicked against the pricks of an earlier 20c Irish conservatism and Christianity to, amidst the wreckage of that century, construct their own alternative mentality. They wrote in a prose style that refused to stand still or sit down. Like Johnst