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William Guy

    The AGP System
    The Lyndoniad
    Homer's Iliad
    Something Sensational
    GETTING DOWN AT BHUBANESHWAR
    • GETTING DOWN AT BHUBANESHWAR

      AND OTHER INDIAN ADVENTURES

      • 276pages
      • 10 heures de lecture

      Westerners often travel to India for revelation. This book chronicles three trips made there by two Westerners, the author and his wife, over nine years. Revelation did occur to them as an aspect of those trips though perhaps not in any form they might have anticipated. India is an assault upon everything from the five senses to one's sense of history and religion, one's sense of the whole world in fact. It overturns, it overwhelms all categories and assumptions. It knocked two seasoned travelers off their bases as the pages of this book demonstrate. And enriched them too. Irruptive India.

      GETTING DOWN AT BHUBANESHWAR
    • Something Sensational

      • 612pages
      • 22 heures de lecture

      This is a book of travel essays, but it is not about what is commonly meant today by "travel," e.g. package tours for middle-aged, middle-class tourists who pile in and out of airconditioned buses around the world for their hour at the obligatory sights-- passive entertainment. These essays are about travel, warts and all, the "agony and the ecstasy" of a do-it-yourself process: from traffic jams in southern Italy to swiftly gliding dream trains in northern Germany and quite a bit in between. They depict a passionate quest for art, music, beauty; journeys to that realm of supreme aesthetic experience which is to be found in front of paintings by the masters and at great performances of operas in Tyrolian villages; epiphanies in dusty Italian squares or in Imperial palaces. They describe an immersion in the history, the landscape and the daily life of other countries. They also describe the "complex fate" of being an American in strange lands. They sometimes toy with the Jamesian question: where can Americans possibly, truly belong?

      Something Sensational
    • Homer's Iliad

      Translated by William Guy

      • 576pages
      • 21 heures de lecture
      Homer's Iliad
    • The Lyndoniad

      • 460pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      Exploring the life and era of Lyndon Johnson, this collection presents a unique poetic interpretation of the tumultuous 1960s. Rather than a traditional historical account, it offers a kaleidoscopic view, featuring fragmented pieces that reflect Johnson's voice alongside perspectives from others. The work captures the chaos and complexity of a nation in crisis, blending personal and political narratives into an abstract epic that reveals the multifaceted nature of this pivotal decade.

      The Lyndoniad