Amán Amán! Volume 2 - Tapa blanda

A fusion of literature, philosophy, memoir, and autobiography, spanning over half a century. In three volumes. If there is a hallmark of this work, it is that it is presented to the reader as one indivisible unit, in which all parts are internally related to all other parts. It is probably as unaspectual and unfragmented a work as has ever been written. In keeping with this spirit, there is no “Table of Contents.” Each of thirty-three sections is simply preceded by a Roman numeral and nothing more. (However, the titles of the Prefaces remain and are the only titled units in the work.) Owing to the length of time (approximately thirty-two years) it took for its execution, the work includes within itself time’s passage. Thus, in addition to its being partly a literary effort, partly a philosophical excursion, partly a memoir, partly a travelogue, and partly an autobiography, it is also a kind of diary.

Although a "Table of Contents” would compartmentalize and compromise the integrity of the work, an "Outline" is here included to give the prospective reader some idea of its structure and scope:

VOLUME 1

Opening Remarks and Quotations

DEDICATION

PREFACES

I. INTRODUCTORY

II. JULES VERNE

III. THOMAS WOLFE

IV. F. NIETZSCHE

V. ADDITIONAL LITERARY CRITICISM

VI. LINEAR AUTOBIOGRAPHY

A) 0 – 29 (1931 – 1960)

B) 29 – 36 (1960 – 1967) (University of Maryland)

C) 36 – 43 (1967 – 1974) (Jacksonville)

VOLUME 2

VII. CHILDHOOD (Proustian, Non-Linear)

VIII. SEX

IX. VITUPERATIVE

X. PHYSIOLOGY

XI. FOOD AND DRINK

XII. HANDBALL

XIII. CHIMERAS

XIV. ACADEMIC PHILOSOPHY

XV. CONFESSIONS

XVI POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

XVII. THE GREEK-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE (Duality)

XVIII. ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS (Drugs, Alcohol)

XIX. DEPRESSION

XX. GOODNESS

XXI. GREECE

XXII. LINEAR AUTOBIOGRAPHY

D) 43 – 53 (1974-1984)

VOLUME 3

XXIII. SCIENCE –FICTION

XXIV. PSYCHOANALYSIS

XXV. TIME

XXVI. THE AESTHETIC

XXVII. PLEASURES

XXVIII. SELF-CRITIQUE (Self-Literary Criticism)

XXIX. THE PROCESS OF WRITING

XXX. NONA

XXXI. STREAM-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS

XXXII. STRUCTURES (Magazines)

XXXIII. LINEAR AUTOBIOGRAPHY

E) 55 – 58 (1984 – 1989)

TITLES OF PREFACES

(for Logan Pearsall Smith)

Beginnings

Moments

“I like my universe as immense as possible, grim, pitiless, and icy.”

The Forest

Goodness

Posing

The Link

Metaphysics

“Hurrah for Karamazov!”

Greatness

Literature

Sexualia

Thomas Wolfe

Laughter and Joy

What Happened?

A Snail, A Slug, A Turtle, and A Fern

Past and Present

They

Sub Specie Aeternitatis

Smerdyakov

The Mysterious Woman

Manhood

Athinai

Anathema!

Problems

Walt Disney

The Lamasery

The Highest Man

The Millionaire

Elafrá Elliniká Tragoúthia

Sainthood

Pelota a Mano

Eccentricity

The Friend

Madness

Children

Norman Douglas

Oblomov

The Anchorite

Confession

Deus Ex Machina

Omar Khayyám

Guardian Angels

S.F.

Psychoanalysis

Black Moods

Elegance

More Prefaces, Aphorisms, and Epigrams (also for Logan Pearsall Smith)

The Empire State Building

The Method

For H.G. Wells

AMÁN!

Dr. Peter Joannides received his B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Virginia, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Cornell University. He taught for the Overseas Division of the University of Maryland in the Far East, Middle East, Africa, and Europe for several years, before accepting a position as professor of philosophy at Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida, from 1967 to 1985. He is now retired and lives in Jacksonville, Florida.