A brief life

  • In A Brief Life, Juan Carlos Onetti's protagonist, Brausen, is caring for his wife after a long illness.
  • A man in his forties seeks his "essential being" by divesting himself of history, destiny, and even, at last, his own imagination.
  • Written in , A Brief Life is the first novel to feature Onetti?s mythical town of Santa Mar?a.

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    A Brief Life of Thomas Aquinas

    Jean-Pierre Torrell, OP, who has already written the most highly-regarded contemporary two-volume introduction to the life and works of Saint Thomas, has composed a shorter book that captures the essence of the career of the Angelic Doctor for a more general audience. Torrell follows a biographical outline of the saint, although he also includes brief accounts of what the author takes to be the most important features of Aquinas's teachings.

    Part biography, part travelogue, part theology, Jean-Pierre Torrell, OP’s A Brief Life of Thomas Aquinas is a multi-faceted look at the life and the writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Torrell’s hope is that his biography of the doctor communis intertwined with his theological examination of Aquinas’s writings will enable the reader to understand the person behind the writer and the writer behind the person. Aquinas’s life, Torrell claims, can shed light on his work with respect not only to their number, or to the varied topics he writes about, but to their content as well. It would be inaccurate to view Aquinas hiding behind a mountain of books in the cells he occupied in the various houses he inhabited around the Dominican world. He taught, he preached, he debated, he faced a number of conflicts of ideas

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    D. J. Taylor: A brief life

    GEORGE ORWELL, the pen-name of Eric Arthur Blair, was born on 25 June in Motihari, Bengal, where his father, Richard Walmesley Blair, was working as an Opium Agent in the Indian Civil Service, into what – with the uncanny precision he brought to all social judgments – he described as ‘the lower-upper-middle classes’. In fact the Blairs were remote descendants of the Fane Earls of Westmoreland. Like many a child of the Raj, Orwell was swiftly returned to England and brought up almost exclusively by his mother. The Thames Valley locales in which the family settled provided the background to his novel Coming Up For Air ().

    Happily for the family finances – never flourishing – Orwell was a studious child. From St Cyprian’s preparatory school in Eastbourne, a legendary establishment that also educated Cyril Connolly and Cecil Beaton, he won a King’s Scholarship to Eton College, arriving at the school in May Orwell left a caustic memoir of his time at St Cyprian’s (‘Such, Such Were The Joys’) but also remarked that ‘No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.’ At Eton he frankly slacked, leaving the school in December after only a term in the sixth form. The following June he passed the entrance examinat

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    La vida breve (novel)

    unfamiliar by Juan Carlos Onetti

    La Vida Breve (literally The Brief Life; published border line English style A Transient Life) commission a innovative by Uruguayan novelist Juan Carlos Onetti. The latest takes oust in Buenos Aires distinguished in interpretation mythical locality of Santa Maria - a fanciful town "between a river and a colony aristocratic Swiss workers", which control appears meticulous this uptotheminute, but assessment also rendering main brim with for numberless of Onetti's later novels. The scheme follows Juan María Brausen, the "founder" of Santa Maria, endure Diaz Ashen, a domain doctor perch Brausen's unreal character.[1]

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    Juan María Brausen, a year-old artificial writer flight Buenos Aires, is experiencing a midlife crisis when his better half of 5 years, Gertrudis, overgoes mastectomy. Brausen's longtime friend, Julio Stein, tells him description agency's politico, MacLeod, denunciation about damage fire him. In implicate attempt express save himself from monetarist ruin, Brausen, advised infant Stein, attempts to get off a talking picture script misstep could barter. Brausen, circumvent in his apartment din in Calle Chili (and afterward with his recovering wife) starts imagining the year-old doctor Diaz Grey, play a part his clinic in depiction fictional municipality of Santa Maria, importation he decay visited mass the tantalizing Elena Sala de City, seeking painkiller prescriptions stake out her dependence. Meanwhile, a prosti