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Plot Summary:
REVISED EDITION - In Capti , Stephen Berard weaves a multicultural, particolored, sometimes surreal and often hilarious tapestry of satire, magic realism, myth, science, and poetry that causes the reader to pinch himself, asking if he can actually be reading something like this in Latin. The central character is a highly functional autistic Seattle ballet dancer, Woody Fava, who speaks in verse and who uses chromoptic therapy in the form of colored eyeglasses to help himself make sense of his world. In search of the Goddess, whom he is sure has recently moved into a condo somewhere in Seattle, Woody quits his ballet job, quickly impoverishes himself, and has a series of disturbing misadventures, until finally disappearing...only to reemerge in Los Angeles at the center of a bizarre murder mystery. But this is only part of the story since Woody’s life is reflected and refracted into a thousand other tales – yes, hints of Scheherazade! – lived out in other times and other contexts.
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In pictura textili sua, fabula hac Capti titulo inscripta, Stephanus Berard multas gentes, multicolores imagines, saturam nunc festivam nunc “suprarealem,” “realismum magicum,” mythos, philosophiam naturalem, poesiam ita affabre contexit ut lector, quasi in somno versans se vellicare velit, num talia re vera Latine legat se rogans. Persona principalis est ballator nomine Vudius Fava, quamvis autisticus nihilominus vitae sat bene agendae capax, qui nihil nisi versus poeticos effatur necnon ocularibus coloratis chromopticae therapiae causa utitur quo melius mundum suum mente comprehendere valeat. Deam quaerens, quam alicubi Seattli diaetam nuper occupasse pro comperto habet, munus ballematicum relinquit seque ipsum in paupertatem redigit. Post ambages iniucundas aliquot Vudius tandem e conspectu abit...donec Angelopoli aliquando iterum dispicitur, medio scilicet in dramate insolitissimo de caedibus vigilibusque. Haec autem fabulae tantum parva pars; nam Vudii vita – non sine Scheherazadae afflatu – in sescentas alias aliis temporibus diversisque sub condicionibus actas identidem repercutitur refrangiturque.
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From the Back Cover:
Novum aevum litterarum renatarum -- credas, non credas -- modo inductum est! Prima fabula a Stephano Berard conscripta, quam proximis annis sequentur sex plures, "monumentum Latinum egregium" (The World's Muse, Vol. 1, Issue 1) constituit cuius par nostro tempore nusquam visum est. Hic scriptor et prorsam orationem et Kunstprose, quae dicitur, necnon et genera poetica antiqua, mediaevalia, modernissima coniungit ut fiat litterarum ordo prorsus novus unicusque. Quamquam Berard genus quoddam antiquum elegit, "Fabula Menippea" denominatum, multa principia scribendi sumsit tamen ab E.T.A. Hoffmann, "realismi phantastici" inventore, "realismi magici" nunc vigentis virentisque proavo. "Heptologia Sphingis," cuius haec fabula pars est, nuntium proferet imprimis holismi quantalis. Ingeniosus auctor per litteras quasi oblectatorias illam nontionem physicam quantalem, per experimenta identidem corroboratam, propagare temptat: unam quamque cosmi "partem" simul partem esse et ipsam summam; cosmi omnia inter se rectissima via (quantali) esse coniuncta; ea quae hic fiunt omnibus "locis" ubique simul varieque exprimi; immo, ob inlocalitem ("non-locality") physicam, principium iam pridem probatum, in ipso rerum fundamento "loca separata" vanas tantum esse species...vel, ut totum visas, hologrammatis virtualis partes cuius informatio nullo singulari "loco" condita.
About the Author:
Stephanus A. Berard, Ph.D., natus est Bostoniae, Angelopoli adolevit, nunc in civitate Vasintoniensi habitat ubi professoris cathedram occupans linguas Hispanicam Latinam Theodiscam docet. Anno MIIM ad linguae Latinae usum "vivum" est conversus; inde ab anno MM, praeter librorum recensiones, nihil iam nisi Latino sermone exaratum divulgat. Inter scripta Latina eius est monographia una, De Theoria Casuum Generativa deque Methodo Philologica, necnon et liber cui est titulus De Philosophia Quantali Deque Institutione Publica, quorum operum ambo edidit Fundatio Melissa Bruxellensis.
Stephen A. Berard, Ph.D., was born in Boston, grew up in the Los Angeles area, and now lives in Washington state, where he teaches German, Latin, and Spanish. In 1998, he was converted to the active use and teaching of Latin or to what was then called "Living Latin." Since 2000, except for book reviews, he has been publishing only in Latin. Among his Latin works are a monograph titled De Theoria Casuum Generativa deque Methodo Philologica ("Generative Case Theory and Philological Method") and De Philosophia Quantali Deque Institutione Publica ("Quantum Physics and Public Education"), both published by the Melissa Foundation of Brussels.
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Stephen A. Berard, Ph.D., was born in Boston, grew up in the Los Angeles area, and now lives in Washington state, where he teaches German, Latin, and Spanish. In 1998, he was converted to the active use and teaching of Latin or to what was then called "Living Latin." Since 2000, except for book reviews, he has been publishing only in Latin. Among his Latin works are a monograph titled De Theoria Casuum Generativa deque Methodo Philologica ("Generative Case Theory and Philological Method") and De Philosophia Quantali Deque Institutione Publica ("Quantum Physics and Public Education"), both published by the Melissa Foundation of Brussels.
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- PublisherAuthorhouse
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1456759736
- ISBN 13 9781456759735
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages644
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