Nensokan
Subtitle: moon in a dewdrop
By: Stacey B. Day.
Edition: Hard Bound
Series: Essays on humanism and the human estate; Essays on humanism and the human estate
Publisher: Trigon
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Praha
Language: eng
Format: Hardbound
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9788086159836
Subjects: Humanism; Essays
Work titles: Literature
First sentence: I am, I suppose, in transition, a less robust, less muscled word, much less grotesque, less harsh, permitting one to be anchored still on earth, before that holy exitus we know will come.
Description: Reflective and philosophical essays on the writer's transition through aging and various cultural backgrounds and travels (Europe, West Africa, Japan, India).
Notes: Author was born in London, England, in 1927. After Military Service, following World War II, he began university studies with Professor Alexander Baykov (who had fled Russia at the onset of the Revolution in 1917) on Russian Economic History and Russian Literature at the University of Birmingham (UK). He later transferred to medical college in Dublin and graduated as a medical doctor in 1955. He traveled widely and taught in West Africa, South America, Central Europe (Fulbright Professor), and in India, China, and Japan.